Researchers clarify catalysis mechanism of cell growth protein Ras
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 12:02
in Physics & Chemistry
Proteins accelerate certain chemical reactions in cells by several orders of magnitude. The molecular mechanism by which the Ras protein accelerates the cleavage of the molecule GTP and thus slows cell growth is described by biophysicists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum led by Prof. Dr. Klaus Gerwert in the Online Early Edition of the journal PNAS.