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1/ How do proteins take their shape in the cell? Insights from our article with @JackJKelly @TheYueLab @UniofOxford @v_paavilainen @HiLIFE_Helsinki @LHapponen @lunduniversity @structbiolbxl @imperialcollege @pfizer nature.com/articles/s4159… #OpenAccess 🧵👇 
2/ #AlphaFold can predict the folded protein shape, but not the complicated folding process itself. Often cells use protein complexes called chaperonins to help other proteins to fold. Here we purified a chaperonin called TRiC from cultured human cells.
3/ Purification was possible only by using #CRISPR genetic scissors. We introduced a purification handle in one of the 8 TRiC subunits. This allowed purification of the endogenous chaperonin as opposed to an engineered version of it. Quite a TRiCK! #samplerevolution
