Ason for rings to evolve with a prime number or highly composite number of subunits. To answer this question, we studied trp RNA Title Loaded From File binding attenuation protein (TRAP) as an illustrative case. TRAP is a ring-form homooligomer for which crystal structures are available of 11-mer (prime number) and 12-mer (highly composite number) …
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