Gamers Help Scientists Solve Enzyme Structure

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 08:50 in Biology & Nature

Retroviral proteases are a class of enzymes that play an important role in the maturation and proliferation of the AIDS virus. As such, this class of enzymes is a subject of intense research. The efforts, however, were hindered by a fundamental problem: nobody knew exactly what these enzymes looked like.read more

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