Researchers discover giant cavity in key tuberculosis molecule
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - 11:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a strange new feature of a protein that's thought to be important in the development of tuberculosis: The protein contains a "huge" interior pocket, the likes of which has never before been seen, that appears capable of passing a wide range of other molecules into the bacterial cell.