Knowing the crystal structure of this "doorway" protein, says Fraser, is key to finding helpful drugs to stop coronavirus and influenza viruses, ...

Following the failure of a wide range of attempts to solve the crystal structure of M-PMV retroviral protease by molecular replacement, we challenged players of the protein folding game Foldit to ...

The crystal structure of the dynamin protein -- one of the molecular machines that makes cells work -- has been revealed, bringing insights into a class of molecules with a wide influence on ...

However, many important proteins lack such a fixed three-dimensional structure. Instead, these so-called intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) can adopt a wide array of different conformations ...

Proteins are the workhorses of cells. Learn how their functions are based on their three-dimensional structures, which emerge from a complex folding process.

The X-ray crystal structure visualization technique has been known for over a hundred years. It keeps improving, but it is extremely difficult to focus the rays on the objects that are invisible ...

What if one of the most iconic building blocks of life was misunderstood all along? A new study challenges long-standing ...

Computational biologists show that averaging is not always a good thing when it comes to analyzing protein crystal structures. Their recent work shows that protein structures could be more dynamic ...

Over a three-week period, gamers playing Foldit, an online protein-folding game, helped to map out the structure of an enzyme that could be used to help fight HIV and AIDS. Advertisement ...

Google’s AI protein folder IDs structure where none seemingly existed Two intrinsically disordered proteins form a specific structure ID'ed by AlphaFold. John Timmer – Sep 19, 2023 2:06 pm | 45 ...

In this new study the researchers crystallized thermolysin, a very stable protein that has been used as a model protein for crystallography before, and soaked its ligand into the crystal (Acta Cryst.

To better understand the relationship between protein crystals’ structure and function, in-cell protein crystallization (ICPC) has been used to directly observe protein crystals in living cells ...