Jacqueline Cherfils: from molecular switches to drugs
… inactive (OFF) to the active (ON) state , and shortly afterwards the first structure of a GTPase-activating protein. … cell biology, brefeldin A, the only GTPase inhibitor that was known at the time. In 2003, the biologist and her team … way . "Our GTPases need activators to which they bind in order to become active. However, instead of preventing this …
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