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Todd Yeates is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA, focusing on the intersection of molecular biology and computation. His lab addresses fundamental questions in protein structure, function, and evolution. Yeates' work includes utilizing protein crystallography to explore enzyme activities with particular interest in adenylosuccinate, which has implications for autism. Additionally, he leverages computational methods to tackle the phase problem in macromolecular crystallography and employs pattern recognition to unravel cellular roles of proteins based on their amino acid sequences. His ongoing research into the symmetry of protein assemblies has led to the development of novel proteins that self-assemble into a variety of regular structures, termed 'nanohedra'.
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