The cuticle is your hair’s protective outer layer, and when it’s healthy, it’s smooth and flat. Damage can lift some of the ...

Not only are these proteins assembled with different amino acid sequences, but they also are held together by different bonds and folded into a variety of three-dimensional structures. The folded ...

Their report, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offers an unprecedented view of the sequence of hydrogen-bonding events that occur when a protein morphs from an ...

For their analysis, the team focused on hydrogen bonds, which are weak bonds that the protein forms internally between the atoms in its amino acids and with the water surrounding it. These bonds are ...

Proteins are composed of one or more chains of amino acids, which are linked together by peptide bonds and folded into specific three-dimensional structures. Proteins have four levels of structure: ...

DOI: 10.1038/s44318-024-00132-2 By studying mutations in yeast and human cells, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found that biochemical bonds between fats and proteins in the ...

Computational analysis provides new insights into silk's mechanical properties that was unavailable experimentally ...

Amino acids can be joined together through peptide bonds to form peptides and proteins. A peptide bond is a covalent bond that forms between the carboxyl group of one amino acid and the amino group of ...

Although researchers have worked hard to modify the protein-synthesizing ribosome to build new types of bond, the task has proven difficult. Now researchers led by Alanna Schepartz at the ...

An error in protein conformation can lead to disease. What are the genetic and molecular causes for incorrectly formed proteins? molecules. In 1917 the German chemist ...

After translation, the polypeptide is finally folded into the correct shape and becomes a protein. Peptide bonds form between the adjacent amino acids to finalise the structure.