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Riboswitches control gene expression at the mRNA level by undergoing conformational changes.
One possibility is that the Ssn6-Tup1 complex switches from a repressive to an activating state upon galactose induction by undergoing conformational changes that modify its affinity for various partners.
The viral "spike" of HCV is formed by two envelope glycoproteins, E1 and E2, which together mediate viral entry by engaging host receptors and undergoing conformational changes to facilitate membrane fusion.
Recent progress in tissue engineering has made it possible to build contractile bio-hybrid materials that undergo conformational changes by growing a layer of cardiac muscle on elastic polymeric membranes.
When plasma Fn is induced to aggregate by anastellin the protein apparently undergoes conformational changes.
Deletion of these residues was shown to accelerate the ATPase rate by ∼1.5-fold by allowing H1 and the lid to undergo conformational changes necessary to form trans-protomer contacts at the NTD-dimer interface (Richter et al., 2002, 2006).
Since HA undergoes conformational changes mediated by an endosomal pH shift during infection, antibodies to conformational sites can be classified in 3 categories depending on their ability to recognize only the neutral form, only the acidified form, or both.
In response to death signals, Bax and Bak are activated, directly and/or indirectly [5], [6], by the BH3-only proteins and undergo conformational changes that result in their stable insertion and subsequent oligomerization in the mitochondrial outer membrane [7], [8].
The GPCR 7TM scaffold allows animal rhodopsins to undergo conformational changes upon activation by light which are larger than the light-induced changes in microbial rhodopsins.
