A supramolecular system that strictly follows the binding mechanism of conformational selection

Liu-Pan Yang; Li Zhang; Mao Quan; Jas S. Ward; Yan-Long Ma; Hang Zhou; Kari Rissanen; Wei Jiang

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16534-9

Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

A supramolecular system that strictly follows the binding mechanism of conformational selection

Liu-Pan Yang,
Li Zhang,
Mao Quan,
Jas S. Ward,
Yan-Long Ma,
Hang Zhou,
Kari Rissanen,
Wei Jiang

Affiliations

Liu-Pan Yang: Shenzhen Grubbs Institute, Department of Chemistry, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Southern University of Science and Technology
Li Zhang: Shenzhen Grubbs Institute, Department of Chemistry, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Southern University of Science and Technology
Mao Quan: Shenzhen Grubbs Institute, Department of Chemistry, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Southern University of Science and Technology
Jas S. Ward: Department of Chemistry, University of Jyvaskyla
Yan-Long Ma: Shenzhen Grubbs Institute, Department of Chemistry, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Southern University of Science and Technology
Hang Zhou: Shenzhen Grubbs Institute, Department of Chemistry, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Southern University of Science and Technology
Kari Rissanen: Department of Chemistry, University of Jyvaskyla
Wei Jiang: Shenzhen Grubbs Institute, Department of Chemistry, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Southern University of Science and Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16534-9
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Conformational selection is one of the two dominant binding mechanisms in biology, but has rarely been studied in synthetic systems. Here, the authors report a supramolecular system that strictly follows the binding mechanism of conformational selection.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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