Structural Biology

Proteins exert most of the activities that occur in cells. It has long been known that the form (the three-dimensional structure) of each protein is closely related to its function, so knowing that form is very important to understand in the best possible way such function and to eventually modify it for biomedical reasons. or biotechnological. The branch of molecular biology that studies the shape of proteins is called structural biology and although minor in quantitative terms when compared to other branches such as immunology or cell biology, its influence has been very large in the last five decades.