For decades, scientists have understood proteins primarily through two defining features: their amino acid sequence and their ...

Proteins are high-performance molecular machines that carry out nearly every biochemical function inside living cells. To ...

An international team of researchers, including those at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science ...

A new 3D-structure of a cancer-linked protein bound to its cellular partner reveals details of how the protein binds to ...

Proteins are the end products of the decoding process that starts with the information in cellular DNA. As workhorses of the cell, proteins compose structural and motor elements in the cell, and they ...

Introduction Cell surface proteins are essential regulators of cell communication, mediating immune activation, cell adhesion ...

On Wednesday, the Nobel Committee announced that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to researchers who pioneered major breakthroughs in computational chemistry. These include two researchers ...

Researchers have used advanced X-ray crystallography methods to determine the structure of the archaeal rubredoxin protein at ...

An international team of researchers, including Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science Tokyo, has developed a protein ...

In the wee hours of an October morning, David Baker, a protein biologist at the University of Washington (UW), received the most-awaited phone call in a scientist’s career. Halfway around the world, ...

In genetics, one harmful variant can be enough to cause disease—but two can make it far more severe. One notable example is KJ, an infant diagnosed with a rare urea cycle disorder with a grim ...