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The drugs work by attaching to a pocket adjacent to the active site, inducing an allosteric conformational change in the protein that prevents it from being activated.

From Science Daily • Dec. 18, 2023

However, a drug that blocks Zika's conformational changes could be effective.

From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2023

I realized that conformational field theory was a good model for this kind of process.

From Scientific American • Sep. 25, 2023

If present, calcium ions bind to troponin, causing conformational changes in troponin that allow tropomyosin to move away from the myosin binding sites on actin.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Explain the negative cooperation for this receptor based on the free energy of conformational changes in the receptor-peptide chains.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022