lock and key models

lock and key models
Specific recognition in biological systems might be mediated through interactions that depend upon very precise steric matching between receptor and ligand, or between enzyme and substrate. The commonly used analogy is between lock and key, and implies a precise sterically determined interaction.

Dictionary of molecular biology. 2004.

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