James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped launch a revolution in biology and medicine, died Thursday at age 97. He died in hospice care after a brief ...

Kinesin-1 is a dynamic heterotetrameric assembly of two heavy and two light chains (KHC and KLC) that mediates microtubule-based intracellular transport of many different cargoes. The complex adopts a ...

Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a highly contagious human herpesvirus responsible for chickenpox upon primary infection and ...

Peptide bonds, also known as amide bonds, are the covalent chemical bonds that connect individual amino acids to form ...

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Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have created a database that provides updated predicted structures on a ...

A mini-peptide has been created that delays the early damage caused by Parkinson's disease and promises a way to slow down ...

This valuable work provides new insights into the role of lysine acetylation of alpha-synuclein, the protein involved in Parkinson's Disease. The evidence is mostly solid, but the claims around the ...

Protein structure predictions are bioinformatic analyses that produce predicted protein structures automatically using the protein amino acid sequence. Protein structures are important because ...

The shape, or structure, of proteins determines how they work, making it essential for researchers to have access to high-quality structural models.