eIF2B-ISRB cryo-EM Structure (VIDEO)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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An experimental drug nicknamed ISRIB (animation zooms in on the white and red molecule at the end) acts as a molecular staple, pinning together identical subcomplexes of a protein called eIF2B.

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Walter Lab/HHMI/UCSF

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