Although the myriad proteins found in all life are largely built from a set of 20 amino acids, many other amino acids exist in nature, and it remains a curiosity as to why some were ultimately ...

In a Nature paper published on Feb 9 th, the team of Prof. LIU Haiyan and Prof. CHEN Quan from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) ...

Proteins are the building blocks of all organisms, and protein-protein interactions are the foundation for cellular structure, metabolism, and communication. Protein-protein interactions range from ...

While humans have an esthetic liking for symmetry in everything, nature prefers asymmetric, single-handed forms when it comes to amino acids—the building blocks of proteins, and, by extension, all ...