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I wish to make a general comment upon the nature of mechanical changes within proteins. The comment applies equally to receptors which must transmit information across a considerable distance, e.g. across a membrane, to the initiation of activity by remote control such as the interaction of ion-binding with ATP formation or hydrolysis, and even to the opening out of a large molecule so that it can be read, e.g. the loosening of histones from DNA. The motion must be directed and functional.
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Williams, R.J.P. (1986). Calcium Trigger Proteins. In: Van Binst, G. (eds) Design and Synthesis of Organic Molecules Based on Molecular Recognition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70926-5_5
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