June 12, 2014

THE TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION VIA PROTEINS COULD REVOLUTIONIZE DRUG DISCOVERY



A study by the scientists Xavier Salvatella and Modesto Orozco at IRB Barcelona reveals the existence of information highways that connect and correlate distant sites within a single protein.

Published in Nature Communications, the article furthers a key theoretical field for drug discovery, as it would allow the discovery of many more drug binding sites in proteins of biomedical interest.