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What would be the benefit of this?
by flyer_go 3y ago
What would be the benefit of this?
- iouwhldkfjgklj 3y agoIt's interesting. That's the benefit.
- dekhn 3y agoProtein design is a multi-billion dollar field. A single observation- thermostable proteases- was incorporated into modern laundry detergents, making Genentech and Corning billions of dollars in IP.
- frangolino 3y ago[dead]
- photonthug 3y agoA category theory textbook opens the "motivation and use cases" section with the following poem: There's a tiresome young man in Bayshore. / When his fiance cried 'I adore / the beautiful sea' / he replied 'I agree, / it's pretty, but what is it for?'
- gilleain 3y agoThermal stability, as far as I know. So hyperthermophiles, presumably. edit: hmmm. from this interesting review - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959440X23001835 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959440X2... (open article) - it looks like some knots might increase mechanical stability and resitance to proteolysis
- dekhn 3y agoOh, cool- they turned a not-truly-a-knot (open ends) protein into a truly knotted one (connected ends) and then unfolded it using urea and it stayed knotted. That's what you'd expect but it's also pretty cool.