Ebola virus’s key protein uses molecular triggers in the human cell to change shape – News-Medical.net

The human genome contains the instructions to make tens of thousands of proteins. Each protein folds into a precise shape-;and biologists are taught that defined shape dictates the protein’s destined function. Tens of thousands of singular shapes drive the tens of thousands of needed functions.
In a new Cell Reports study, researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology demonstrate how Ebola virus has found a different way to get things done. The virus encodes only eight proteins but requires dozens…

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