For years, biomolecular condensates were thought to be simple, liquid-like droplets with little internal organization. New ...

A study has found that an ancient protein motif that binds to nucleic acids is functionally "ambidextrous." This means that the motif can interact with both natural and mirror-image nucleic acids, an ...

Proteins often function in pairs or groups, concealing their internal connection points and making it difficult for scientists to study their individual units without altering their natural structure.

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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 ...

A new technique based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based single-molecule protein fingerprinting can identify where specific amino acids and post-translational modifications are ...