Definition of "allostery" []

• The quality of being allosteric (noun)

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• "Flemish researchers provide the first experimental evidence of dynamic allostery in protein regulation"
• "Given that allostery represents one of the most common and powerful means to regulate protein function, the traditional drug discovery approach of targeting active sites can be extended by targeting allosteric or regulatory protein pockets that may allow the discovery of not only novel drug-like inhibitors, but activators as well."
• "They found striking similarities between Argonaute structures and proteins that happened to exhibit a particular kind of "cooperative binding" known as allostery."