Recent Peptide Research and News
Coiled Coils
Reflecting recent work in the Price lab
Coiled coils are one of most common protein quaternary structures and represent the best understood relationship between amino acid sequence and protein...
Monoclonal Antibodies
Reflecting recent work in the Nowick lab
Monoclonal antibodies, mAbs, that target the β-amyloid peptide, Aβ, are important Alzheimer's disease research tools and are now being...
Novel, Rational Drug Design
Reflecting recent work in the Deber lab
As an alternative approach to conventional antibiotics, members of the Charles Deber laboratory, published in Peptide Science, explore a novel...
Self-Sorting Collagen
Reflecting recent work in the Wennemers lab
Nature uses elaborate methods to control protein assembly, including that of heterotrimeric collagen....
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