"The three laureates have accomplished what many scientists thought impossible, namely to determine the three- dimensional structure of the molecular machine that makes all the proteins in a cell, the so-called ribosome,"

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Proteins have three dimensional structures in solution and their structure determines what they do.

在溶液中,蛋白质以三维结构存在,它的结构决定功能

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