Monday, March 27, 2017

Travelling-wave ion mobility mass spectrometry elucidates structures of gold fingers

Drugs containing gold have been used for centuries to treat conditions like rheumatoid arthritis. In addition, they might be effective against cancer and HIV. One mechanism by which they work could occur because gold ions force the zinc ions out of zinc fingers – looped, nucleic acid binding protein domains. American researchers have characterized such ‘gold fingers’ using ion mobility mass spectrometry. They identified the exact gold binding sites.



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