FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers have created a new method for studying protein degradation within immune cells ...

Today researchers know that proteins are long polymers made out of a set of twenty ... Chaperones can avoid the conformational change to beta sheet structure and the aggregation of these altered ...

The primary structure of a protein is composed of ... of these polymers and examined the interactions between polymers and proteins through physicochemical techniques. Their findings revealed ...

Mezzenga studied polymer physics, and his career quickly ... Amyloid fibrils are a secondary structure of protein, a class of protein aggregate. They were discovered in the context of ...

Proteins – large ... sections of the protein with synthetic alternatives that have the same broad structure. Professor Wilson and his team have used a foldamer – a polymer that folds in a predictable ...

She likened the concept to folded proteins that interact ... assembled into a crystal-like structure, providing different spaces between each unit for the hairy polymers to fill.