When you build a house or a bookshelf from a warehouse, you often use predefined components. You can do the same with proteins, as American researchers show in Nature.
What if you could apply the IKEA concept to protein design? It would make building the protein structures of your choice much easier and open up many possibilities. Timothy Huddy, David Baker and colleagues at the University of Washington have shown just that in a recent Nature paper.
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