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Under Pressure: How a Deep-Sea Protein Adapts by Forming Trimers
Key Takeaways
- A research team led by Professor Gaku Fukuhara at Kyushu University studied how a deep-sea protein remains stable under extreme pressure.
- The team focused on PoXeR, a protein from a deep-sea bacterium, using a custom-built apparatus to increase pressure.
- They found that PoXeR stabilizes by assembling into trimers, or groups of three.
- This process is called oligomerization-mediated structural stabilization, and the trimeric structure suits high-pressure environments.
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