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12/07 PDB101 News

The Nobel Prize Ceremony will take place December 10 in Sweden, with many events and lectures streamed online.

Browse PDB-101 to explore articles and resources that highlight many of the PDB structures and related experimental techniques associated with other Nobel Prizes, including this month's feature on FOXP3. A master transcriptional regulator of immune tolerance, FOXP3 helps us understand this year's Prize in Physiology or Medicine that will be awarded to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.

<I>The FOXP3 forkhead box domain (green) can bind to DNA (blue) in a variety of ways.<BR>
Left: head-to-head dimer (7TDW, 7TDX)<BR>
Right: domains-swapped dimer binding to two strands of DNA (3QRF).</I>The FOXP3 forkhead box domain (green) can bind to DNA (blue) in a variety of ways.
Left: head-to-head dimer (7TDW, 7TDX)
Right: domains-swapped dimer binding to two strands of DNA (3QRF).

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