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SUBMITTER: Behrmann E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4432480 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Behrmann Elmar E Loerke Justus J Budkevich Tatyana V TV Yamamoto Kaori K Schmidt Andrea A Penczek Pawel A PA Vos Matthijn R MR Bürger Jörg J Mielke Thorsten T Scheerer Patrick P Spahn Christian M T CM
Cell 20150501 4
Macromolecular machines, such as the ribosome, undergo large-scale conformational changes during their functional cycles. Although their mode of action is often compared to that of mechanical machines, a crucial difference is that, at the molecular dimension, thermodynamic effects dominate functional cycles, with proteins fluctuating stochastically between functional states defined by energetic minima on an energy landscape. Here, we have used cryo-electron microscopy to image ex-vivo-derived hu ...[more]