Proteins are the building blocks of life. They consist of folded peptide chains, which in turn are made up of a series of ...

Why do problems occur with a special variant of ‘protein glues’, the split inteins, that severely limit their use in ...

Within a protein, multiple amino acids are linked together by peptide bonds, thereby forming a long chain. Peptide bonds are formed by a biochemical reaction that extracts a water molecule as it ...

Central in many of these investigations is the analysis of biologically active peptides--chains of amino acids ranging from as few as two to more than 50 acids. Since these peptides can't be derived ...

Hanson and Stevens 1 recently reported the cocrystal structure of the botulinum neurotoxin B light chain in complex with a 38-residue target peptide of synaptobrevin II. Based on a careful ...