Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Many dissimilar NusG protein domains switch between α-helix and β-sheet folds

  • Lauren L. Porter,
  • Allen K. Kim,
  • Swechha Rimal,
  • Loren L. Looger,
  • Ananya Majumdar,
  • Brett D. Mensh,
  • Mary R. Starich,
  • Marie-Paule Strub

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31532-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Folded proteins are composed of secondary structures, α-helices and β-sheets, that are generally assumed to be stable. Here, the authors combine computational prediction with experimental validation to show that many sequence-diverse NusG protein domains switch completely from α-helix to β-sheet folds.