Peptide bonds are formed by a biochemical reaction that extracts a water molecule as it joins ... of amino acids within a protein is considered the primary structure of the protein.

This article was originally published with the title “ The Three-Dimensional Structure of a Protein Molecule ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 205 No. 6 (December 1961), p. 96 doi:10.1038 ...

Yale researchers have now developed a method to map and measure the structure of RNA as it develops, an advance that may help ...

Scientists still needed to figure out this molecule's structure to be sure, and to understand how it worked. In 1948, Linus Pauling discovered that many proteins take the shape of an alpha helix ...

researchers could identify individual hydrogen atoms in the apoferritin molecule and the water surrounding it. For years, the standard way to study protein structure was to form a crystal and ...

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the information-carrying molecule found in all living ... is the instructions that the cell uses to make proteins. Proteins play a big part in determining the ...

Sarika Kondra and her co-author's TSR-based method represents a major advancement in protein structure analysis, integrating ...

However, it has not been clear yet how exactly this protein interacts with its ligands and whether its structure changes depending on the type of molecule being transported. However, it is known ...

The cloverleaf structure is formed by the folding of the single-stranded tRNA molecule, which is typically 73-90 nucleotides ... the genetic code into the correct amino acid sequence of the protein.