Who needs water? The gas phase may seem an esoteric place to examine the structures of proteins, but a new study reveals that the solution fold of the protein KIX can be retained for significant time periods in a mass spectrometer. Once in this ideal laboratory environment, details of the higher order fold can be elucidated at the single amino acid level.
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