From eons to seconds, proteins exploit the same forces
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - 13:31
in Biology & Nature
Nature's artistic and engineering skills are evident in proteins, life's robust molecular machines. Scientists have now employed their unique theories to show how the interplay between evolution and physics developed these skills. Energy landscapes for protein folding, they found, operate on evolutionary processes that take eons as well as folding that takes microseconds.