Kanazawa University research: Researchers fix the chirality of helical proteins
KANAZAWA, Japan, Nov. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at Kanazawa University report in Nature Communications how they can control chirality inversion in α helical peptides.
- KANAZAWA, Japan, Nov. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at Kanazawa University report in Nature Communications how they can control chirality inversion in α helical peptides.
- Now Naoki Ousaka, Mark J. MacLachlan and Shigehisa Akine at Kanazawa University in Japan have shown how they can control and fix the coil direction.
- Helical proteins are chiral molecules, which means that the molecule's shape cannot be fitted into its mirror image.
- In nature helical proteins often have other chiral components, such as sugars or amino acids, and these will determine which way the protein coils.