Many of the building blocks of life such as amino acids and nucleotides are chiral, i.e., different from their mirror image. Contemporary life selects and synthesizes only one of two possible handednesses. In an abiotic environment, however, there ar...
the Golden Powder, a seasoning of incredible savoriness that creates a new form of amino acid. He has been living on the lowest level of the "Heavy Hole"
The zinc finger structure where a Zn2+ ion binds to 4 cysteine or histidine amino acids in a tetrahedral structure is very common motif of nucleic acid binding proteins. The corresponding interaction model is present in 3% of the genes of human genom...
Proteins are essential to life, and understanding their structure can facilitate a mechanistic understanding of their function. Through an enormous experimental effort<sup>1-4</sup>, the structures of around 100,000 unique proteins have been determined<sup>5</sup>, but this repre…
Proteins are essential to life, and understanding their structure can facilitate a mechanistic understanding of their function. Through an enormous experimental effort<SUP>1-4</SUP>, the structures of around 100,000 unique proteins have been determined<SUP>5</SUP>, but this repre…