When a protein folds, its string of amino acids wiggles and jiggles through countless conformations before it forms a fully folded, functional protein. This rapid and complex process is hard to ...

Jacobs School researchers have shown how an electron diffraction technique can quickly and efficiently create high-resolution ...

Why Is Protein Folding Important? The end result on the protein’s three dimensional structure holds a great deal of biological importance. The final structure of the protein exposes a number of ...

Imagine tugging on a Chinese finger trap. The harder you pull, the tighter it grips. This counterintuitive behavior also exists in biology. Certain protein complexes can form catch-bonds, tightening ...