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In 1984, John Rosenberg of the University of Pittsburgh completed the first visualization of a protein/DNA complex—a molecule of DNA and a molecule of protein bound together. This complex involved the EcoR1 protein, an important enzyme that is known to bind to DNA. Protein/DNA complexes play an important part in many biological processes. The structure imaged here has helped scientists understand how protein and DNA molecules recognize each other.
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