The framework predicts how proteins will function with several interacting mutations and finds combinations that work well ...

December 03, 2019 Why Is Protein Folding Important in Biology? Much of our understanding of proteins in general is relative to their function in the human diet. To be sure, one of the major functions ...

A recent statistical study has revealed some of the constraints and directions in the evolution of the structure and function of proteins. Better models of protein structural dynamics may allow ...

Osaka, Japan – Our cells carry out hundreds of thousands of important functions every day, all of which are carefully orchestrated at a microscopic scale. However, the precise mechanisms that ...

Inspired by the simple mechanism of a seesaw—when one side goes up, the other side goes down—researchers asked an intriguing ...

Researchers at Kanazawa University report in eLife on deciphering the actin structure-dependent preferential cooperative binding of cofilin. The actin filament is a double-stranded helical structure ...

In Alzheimer's Disease and other neurodegenerative dementias, proteins that normally play a role in healthy brain tissue turn bad, clumping together to form insoluble plaques and tangles as neurons ...

What the research is about Do you remember playing on a seesaw in the park as a child? When one side goes up, the other ...