Each protein is a molecule made up of different combinations of 20 types of smaller, simpler amino acids. Protein molecules are long chains of amino acids that are folded into a three-dimensional ...

How did scientists discover and unlock this amino acid code? Once the budding molecular biology community was convinced about the triplet code, the race to decode which triplets specified which ...

Work by the Birmingham scientists identified two sequences of three amino acids that showed biological activity comparable to the full-length PEPITEM molecule ... an animal model of disease.