These insights could drive the development of new drugs to treat transthyretin amyloidosis, a progressive and fatal disease.

The tiny protein known as transthyretin can cause big problems in the body when it misfolds after secretion. While healthy ...

An artificial intelligence model has created a new protein that researchers say would have taken 500 million years to evolve ...

In addition, chemical forces between a protein ... Bonding within protein molecules helps stabilize their structure, and the final folded forms of proteins are well-adapted for their functions.

In living organisms, protein molecules with different chemical structures called proteoforms, are produced from a single gene ...

Ramakrishnan, a distinguished structural biologist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2009), is renowned for his groundbreaking ...

Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine have mapped a critical ...

These proteins are β-amyloid and tau ... "This study revealed the molecular structure of tau in tissue, how amyloids are arranged, and new molecular structures entangled within this pathology ...

A prominent research group from Ehime University and its close partner at Kiel University have published their third ...

The cloverleaf structure is formed by the folding of the single-stranded tRNA molecule, which is typically 73-90 nucleotides long ... ensure the faithful translation of the genetic code into the ...

Integral membrane proteins carry out essential functions in the cell, and their activities are often modulated by specific protein-lipid interactions in the membrane. Here, we elucidate the intricate ...

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the information-carrying molecule found in all living ... is the instructions that the cell uses to make proteins. Proteins play a big part in determining the ...