Doubly stapled α-helix consisting only of achiral amino acids. Its one-handed form can be isolated because the interconversion between the right- and left-handed forms is almost completely suppressed.

Amino acids are organic compounds that serve as the fundamental building blocks of proteins. They play a crucial role in the structure, function, and regulation of the body's tissues and organs. Amino ...

AlphaFold didn't accelerate biology by running faster experiments. It changed the engineering assumptions behind protein ...

In a Nature paper published on Feb 9 th, the team of Prof. LIU Haiyan and Prof. CHEN Quan from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) ...

KANAZAWA, Japan, Nov. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at Kanazawa University report in Nature Communications how they can control chirality inversion in α helical peptides. The function of a ...

Alongside the classical 20 protein amino acids, which are used to build proteins, there are more than 1000 non-protein amino acids in nature. Occasional mistakes can mean these non-protein amino acids ...