What is the role of Specialty Centers in the PSI program?
Six specialized centers develop innovative methods, approaches, and technologies for producing and determining the structures of proteins that traditionally have been difficult to study. These include small protein complexes, membrane proteins, and proteins from higher organisms, including humans. During the next 5 years, these efforts are expected to overcome bottlenecks in the structural genomics pipeline and approach high-throughput operation. The specialized centers are also expected to determine a significant number of these challenging protein structures.
