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. 2007 Aug 29;8(8):R176. doi: 10.1186/gb-2007-8-8-r176

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Power-law behaviors of ligand-protein binding. The number of ligands (N) decays with an increase in the number (L) of (a) domains and (b) folds that bind the ligand and follows the equation N = aL-b. The figure illustrates that a few ligands cover tens of protein domains or folds, while most ligands bind only one domain or fold.