Proteins, similar to carbohydrates and lipids, are made up of such elements as carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. They are amino acid chains, made up from 20 different L-alpha-amino acids, also referred ...

Scientists have unlocked new details on important receptor proteins—promising targets for the creation of novel drugs for ...

Note: The confidence level of AlphaFold’s predictions vary within each protein ... two shapes when working with two different partners. That Frankenstein structure, which doesn’t exist ...

A protein folds itself into a structure that ... This can lead to lower levels of accuracy when the programs/algorithms encounter a protein that is mutated or very different from those on which ...

The UAB researchers, led by Terje Dokland, Ph.D., in collaboration with Asma Hatoum-Aslan, Ph.D., at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, have described atomic models for all or part of 11 ...

The sequence of amino acids in the chain determines how the chain will fold up to make the protein, so different proteins have different three-dimensional shapes. The three-dimensional shape of a ...