Enhancing the Activity of a Protein by Stereospecific Unfolding: CONFORMATIONAL LIFE CYCLE OF INSULIN AND ITS EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS.
Hua, Q.X., Xu, B., Huang, K., Hu, S.Q., Nakagawa, S., Jia, W., Wang, S., Whittaker, J., Katsoyannis, P.G., Weiss, M.A.(2009) J Biol Chem 284: 14586-14596
- PubMed: 19321436 
- DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M900085200
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
2K91, 2K9R - PubMed Abstract: 
A central tenet of molecular biology holds that the function of a protein is mediated by its structure. An inactive ground-state conformation may nonetheless be enjoined by the interplay of competing biological constraints. A model is provided by insulin, well characterized at atomic resolution by x-ray crystallography ...