Two new options for making designer proteins made news in 2001—both from labs at Scripps Research Institute. Since 2001, Schimmel and Schultz have taken different directions with unnatural amino acids ...

Evolutionary biochemistry aims to dissect the evolutionary processes and physical mechanisms by which biological molecules diversified and to reveal how their physical architecture facilitates and ...

Proteins are often called the building blocks of cells, but even those building blocks need to be built. One of the most important steps in the process of building proteins is glycosylation, when ...

Researchers have found a new type of cross-link between amino acids in a protein (Nature 2021, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03513-3). The intramolecular linkage is an N-O-S bridge formed by oxidizing the ...

“Molecular mechanisms of inverse agonism via k-opioid receptor-G protein complexes” was published by Nature Chemical Biology and can be reviewed now at Nature.com Aaliyah S. Tyson, a pioneering young ...

Mitochondria are cellular organelles that play an important role in making ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the molecular fuel that powers most cellular functions. These organelles originated over a ...

Scientists have attempted to map the human cell since the first microscope was invented more than 400 years ago. But many components of the cell still remain uncharted. " We know each of the proteins ...

Chicago, Feb. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Plant-based protein refers to protein derived from plants rather than animals. These proteins are sourced from a variety of plant-based foods such as legumes ...

Queen's University Belfast provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The emergence of a new variant of coronavirus has sparked renewed interest in the part of the virus known as ...