Author: Sarah Kearns
Editors: David Mertz, Zulierys Santana-Rodriguez, and Scott Barolo
Proteins do most of the work in your body: Depending on their shape, they can digest your food, fire your neurons, give color to your eyes and allow you to see colors. Proteins follow instructions encoded in your DNA to fold into their shape, but how do they “know” what shape to fold into to perform their biological functions? What happens when they fold incorrectly?
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