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 ...

Although they are much weaker than the preeminent "covalent" chemical bonds that bind atoms in biological molecules, hydrogen bonds are known to occur at key points along the central "backbone" ...

Protein low-complexity domains (LCDs) stack together to form dynamic liquid droplets within the cell; alas, some pathogenic mutations in these regions encourage aggregation beyond this temporary ...