As workhorses of the cell, proteins compose structural and motor elements in the cell ... DNA contains the code for a unique protein structure. Not only are these proteins assembled with different ...

The scientists analyzed the structure of the connector – the core of the phi29 DNA packaging motor – to a resolution of 3.2 angstroms, or 3.2 hundred-millionths of a centimeter. Their findings show ...

The sequence of amino acids in the chain determines how the chain will fold up to make the protein, so different proteins have different three-dimensional shapes. The three-dimensional shape of a ...

Storing and processing memories uses nanoscopic motor proteins called kinesin that move materials around within neurons to construct the structural code of memory. These nanoscopic workers “walk ...

These bonds are dynamic, rapidly forming and breaking over time as the protein folds. Because it only takes nanoseconds to microseconds for a protein to morph along its path to its final structure, ...