Sentences with phrase «proper shape of proteins»

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The idea of making transgenic drugs occurred to a number of scientists during the mid-1980s, when the new industry began to wrestle with the challenge of making complex proteins: ensuring that these big molecules were folded into the proper shape and that they had all their sugars in the right places on the surface of the proteins» amino acids.

The stickiness holding these «nanorods» together were non-covalent bonds between backbone atoms, the same types of bonds nature uses so that proteins take their proper shapes.

Starting in the late 1980s, their labs revealed steps in how the endoplasmic reticulum, the cell's factory for processing secreted and membrane proteins, deals with proteins whose linear sequence of amino acids hasn't folded into a proper 3D shape.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have discovered that all the necessary information to sculpt a protein into its proper shape and function is contained in a relatively simple set of...

But Hsp90 is also what's called a «chaperone protein,» a member of a family of proteins dedicated to helping fellow proteins assume their proper shapes.