Short peptides can self-assemble into net-like structures that kill bacteria. Now, researchers have discovered how to control ...

Peptides that self-assemble into nanostructures are of tremendous interest for biological, medical, photonic and nanotechnological applications. The enormous sequence space that is available from 20 ...

Scientists have developed a way of finding optimal peptide sequences: using a machine-learning algorithm as a collaborator. The algorithm analyzes experimental data and offers suggestions on the next ...

A new mass spectrometry strategy makes it easier to sequence venom peptides, a diverse set of disulfide-rich natural products that are difficult to characterize. For example, the approximately 500 ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Feb., 1973), pp. 382-384 (3 pages) An octacosapeptide with the entire sequence proposed for the newly ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 93, No. 4 (Feb. 20, 1996), pp. 1577-1581 (5 pages) A key event in Ras-mediated signal transduction and ...

mRNA display is similar to ribosomal display except the linkage between the mRNA and the protein is a highly stable covalent amide bond instead of noncovalent coupling through an unstable ternary ...

Proteins form the structural and functional backbone of the cell, and any perturbation in their synthesis can disrupt normal cellular functions. The DNA blueprint is carefully read, transcribed, and ...

Cell biologists have discovered that a protein, during its synthesis, may destabilize the structure of the ribosome and end its own synthesis prematurely, and found that this phenomenon is used for ...

Scientists and engineers have long been interested in synthesizing peptides — chains of amino acids responsible for conducting many functions within cells — to both mimic nature and to perform new ...