Sentences with phrase «different peptide sequences»

Researchers at Stanford University purified the proteasome from the malaria parasite and examined its activity against hundreds of different peptide sequences using a novel method developed at the University of California, San Francisco.

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When strung together in a sequence, amino acids create peptides and proteins with different 3D structures and, consequently, different biological functions.

Naturally occurring peptides can be composed of 20 different amino acids, so there is a great deal of possible variation in their sequences.

We have a short time period, and so we do about a billion experiments at a time, where we can genetically engineer our viruses to express different random peptide sequences and we can, you know, [in] about a one microliter sample we can introduce about a billion different viruses to a semiconductor wafer or an electrode and have them see if they can actually molecularly imprint it or try to do a chemical and physical map to it so that they can actually then have a template to grow that material.

«What's critical with this and what has never been done before is that a single peptide sequence will work against the toxic versions of a number of different amyloid proteins and peptides, regardless of their amino acid sequence or the normal 3 - D structures.»