Structural Biology

MIT researchers report that three short peptides stayed intact for weeks in a solution of about 98 percent sulfuric acid and folded into a defined three-dimensional shape instead of breaking down.…

Sequence a bacterium and you get a parts list with most of the labels missing. Streptococcus pneumoniae, the organism responsible for a great deal of pneumonia and meningitis, encodes a broad array…

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have mapped the protein partners of 100 genes strongly associated with autism spectrum disorder and report more than 1,800 interactions…

A bacterium has no nervous system and no hormones, and it still knows when it is drowning in sodium. Part of how it knows is a piece of its own messenger RNA, folded into a pocket that closes around…

Researchers have identified four sites on a protein of the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus where protective antibodies bind, and solved three crystal structures showing how the most potent of…

Ask a structure-prediction model to work out how two molecules fit together, and much of what happens next is closer to guesswork than most people assume. The model generates a crowd of candidate…

The soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis assembles tubes of protein that carry the fat-soluble molecules of respiration away from its cell membrane, a research team reports in a paper published Aug. 17…

The narwhal's corkscrew tusk is built from mineral-hardened collagen wound into two helices that turn in opposite directions, a team led from Aarhus University in Denmark reports in a paper published…