Proteins are major targets of pharmaceuticals, and are themselves increasingly used as therapeuticals. However both basic research and the pharmaceutical industry depends on availability of purified ...

Each protein is a molecule made up of different combinations ... Amino acids can also be basic, like lysine, or acidic, like glutamic acid. The sequence and interactions between the side chains ...

Proteins interacting with ... models with biology and data from molecular simulations, the researchers have created a tool that could enhance basic understanding of cellular dynamics.

These two intrinsically related processes have been key to our basic understanding ... fixed amino acid mutations of protein sequences as a function of time. The molecular evolutionary rate ...