Phe396 (VIDEO)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Watch the flipping conformations in a pair of phenylalanine amino acids called Phe396 (blue and red molecules), which act as a molecular switch essential to the signaling mechanism of an E. coli chemoreceptor.

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Davi Ortega

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