The protein backbone plays a big role in protein stability. For example, hydrogen bonds between the NH of one amide and the carbonyl oxygen of another are involved in helices, sheets, and every other ...

Proteins carry out exceptionally diverse molecular functions—even though they are all built on an unvarying polyamide backbone. How much more chemical diversity might be unlocked by editing that ...

RICHLAND, Wash. -- Researchers hoping to design new materials for energy uses have developed a system to make synthetic polymers -- some would say plastics -- with the versatility of nature's own ...

HHMI researchers develop computer program that engineers a protein to fold 100-times faster than normal. Researchers have used an advanced computer program to redesign how a small protein folds into ...

Bioengineers have found why proteins that are designed from scratch tend to be more tolerant to high temperatures than proteins found in nature. Natural proteins with high 'thermostability' are prized ...