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

Attempts over the years to design small molecule drugs that block them have been largely unsuccessful, so in recent years scientists have explored using peptides—small protein fragments—to ...

Cyclic peptides, which combine characteristics of both small molecules and proteins, have emerged as ... with an inhibition rate exceeding 70%. Molecular docking simulations and site-directed ...

The study highlights how LLMs are transforming peptide and protein research ... methods like X-ray crystallography or ...