Scientists create method for designing proteins that can bind and sense a range of small molecules
From growth hormones to cancer drugs, small molecules play a crucial role in our health. Monitoring them is essential to ...
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Protein Structure
In fact, each gene in cellular DNA contains the code for a unique protein structure. Not only are these proteins assembled with different amino acid sequences, but they also are held together by ...
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From Symphony to Structure: Listening to Proteins Fold
Because it only takes nanoseconds to microseconds for a protein to morph along its path to its final structure, the scientists needed to slow down the process during their analysis to be able to catch ...
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Predicting protein structure unveils the shape of drugs to come
But not all target proteins were receptive to this method, called structure-based drug design. The 3-D structure of many proteins remained unavailable, and many important proteins could not be ...
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The Journey to a Nobel Prize: A Protein Design and Structure Research Timeline
Learn about our Editorial Policies. While AlphaFold and the subsequent AI revolution in biology garnered a lot of attention, the foundational bricks for the strides made in protein structure and ...