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How to pick a protein and pull at it

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In this issue of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, work on the bacterial AAA+ machine ClpX provides insight into how the ATPase subunits exert a translocating force on their substrates.

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Inobe, T., Kraut, D. & Matouschek, A. How to pick a protein and pull at it. Nat Struct Mol Biol 15, 1135–1136 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb1108-1135

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