Fiber’s structural integrity keeps plants strong – and its indigestibility keeps your digestive system healthy

Human bodies easily digest starch. Your body uses an enzyme called amylase that breaks the alpha bonds to release glucose ...

Powerful Antioxidant Found To Play a Key Role in Proper Protein Folding

Glutathione balance in the ER, controlled by SLC33A1, is essential for proper protein folding and disease prevention.
American Institute of Physics

An integrated strategy for mapping intrinsically disordered proteins

Intrinsically disordered proteins have no single structure, making them challenging for traditional structural biology ...

Light-activated protein illuminates when embryos can cope with disruptions to cell division

Cell division during the early stage of embryo development is a trade-off between speed and accuracy; the cells need to ...
Nature

All life runs on 20 amino acids. These cells run key machinery on just 19

AI-guided redesign of protein alphabet in bacteria could unlock new ways to build synthetic organisms.
Scientific American

Scientists used AI to rewrite part of life’s alphabet

An engineered E. coli strain survived after one amino acid was designed out of many of its ribosomal proteins—an early test ...
eLife

The structure of Egalitarian in complex with the K10 mRNA localization signal reveals a modular binding surface required for function

This manuscript has convincing data that provides a high-resolution structure of the Egl-RNA complex. The findings are important to understand the formation, stability, and interactions of this ...