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"The change in a protein's conformation brought about by the binding of a regulatory ligand (at a site other than the protein's catalytic site), or by covalent modification. The change in conformation alters the activity of the protein and can form the basis of directed movement."


Glossary definition from Alberts, Bruce, Molecular Biology of the Cell, 5th Edition, Garland Science, 2008