Optimizing protein's 'death domain' halts leukemia in laboratory study
...amino acids were linked to each other by a pair of hydrocarbon subunits. Like a reinforcing metal staple, Walensky explains, these links held the peptide in its natural coiled configuration. Further experiments confirmed that the stapled BH3 alpha helix retained its biological activity. In fact, it bound even mo...Researchers create nanotubes that change colors, form 'nanocarpet' and kill bacteria
...l membrane. How a mere single-step synthesis of a hydrocarbon and a simple salt compound produced these unique n...isrupt cell membranes and cause cell death, with a hydrocarbon diacetylene, which can change colors when appropriately formulated, the resulting molecule would hav...