The phrase "a minimal complex" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing simplicity or essential elements within a complex system or structure.
Example: "In our analysis, we found that a minimal complex of features was sufficient to achieve the desired outcome."
Alternatives: "a simple structure" or "a basic configuration".
Most intracellular VPS34 forms a minimal complex, the VPS34 VPS15 dimer.
Two biochemical preparations can be made of the C. tepidum reaction center consisting of FMO and RCC (FMO/RCC) or a minimal complex containing only PscA and PscC.
To identify a minimal complex that contains all of the protein elements required for a stable SMN Gemin2 interaction, we used bacterial two-hybrid and in vitro binding assays to identify the minimal domain boundaries.
Overall, our experiments with Mto1/2[bonsai], a "minimal" Mto1/2 complex, demonstrate that Mto1/2 complex can activate MT nucleation by the fission yeast γ-TuC independently of localizing the γ-TuC to any specific location within the cell.
Consistent with our findings of the necessity of a minimal fusion complex, each Sx1A is in a complex with SNAP-25, Syt1, and the Ca2+ channel.
Consistent with the necessity of a minimal fusion complex termed the excitosome, each Sx1A is in a complex with SNAP-25, Syt1, and the Ca2+ channel.
Upon binding to a minimal SNARE complex containing the SNAREs motifs of synaptobrevin, syntaxin-1 and SNAP-25 (below referred to as SNARE complex or SC), the H-N TROSY-HSQC spectrum of CpxI(26-83) reveals strevealsoadening and a dramatic increastrongdispersion for cross-peaks from the central helix due to stabroadeningg of this helix andinst the synaptobrevin andramaticincreaseRE motins.
Combined with a 7.5 Å resolution reconstruction of the minimal complex between LdcI and the LdcI-binding domain of RavA, and the previously solved crystal structures of the individual components, this work enables to build a reliable pseudoatomic model of this unusual architecture and to identify conformational rearrangements and specific elements essential for complex formation.
Now the crystal structures of a minimal CDC7 DBF4 complex, with bound nucleotide or inhibitor, along with functional analyses reveal that DBF4 wraps around CDC7, stabilizing the αC helix in the N lobe and tethering the C lobe of the kinase.
These are sufficient to form a minimal TFEα/β complex.
Vice-versa, there could have been a minimal dynactin complex at the origin of the eukaryotes that multicellular eukaryotes expanded to accomplish more and different tasks.
