Food scientists are paving the way for 3D-printed food and pharmaceuticals based on drought-tolerant grain sorghum protein ...

‌Myoglobin has several roles, but its most important role is to act as storage for oxygen. This protein attaches to oxygen in the blood and takes it to the muscles throughout your body ...

Object Details Description (Brief) Professor Jonathan Wittenberg used this model of sperm whale myoglobin structure as a teaching tool at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University ...

A year earlier Christian Anfinsen had found that a protein’s 3D structure is governed by the sequence of amino acids in the protein, and won the 1972 chemistry prize.

Efforts to unlock the mysteries of proteins, building blocks of life, have earned three scientists the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry. The prize goes to David Baker “for computational protein ...

Typically, figuring out the structure involves laborious biochemistry to purify the protein, followed by a number of imaging techniques to determine where each of its atoms resides. But in theory ...

Predicting proteins’ structure from their amino acid sequences had stumped researchers since the 1970s. But in 2020, Hassabis and Jumper developed an artificial intelligence model called AlphaFold2.

More information: Hakan Doga et al, A Perspective on Protein Structure Prediction Using Quantum Computers, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.4c00067 ...

Compare myoglobin & hemoglobin in structure Hemoglobin and myoglobin are composed of two parts (protein and heme). The protein part in myoglobin is a monomer, a single-chain protein (made up of 7 ...

Muscle proteins are highly nutritious and are regarded as an important protein source in the human diet due to the abundance of essential amino acids. Basically, muscle proteins can be categorized ...

The prediction of protein structure is difficult for a few reasons. First, there is a huge search space — every possible 3D position for each atom in each amino acid.