KNOWING WHEN TO FOLD: Judith Frydman and F. Ultrich Hartl tested a hypothesis concerning protein folding. Using the folding of the protein luciferase from fireflies as a model, the researchers ...

Protein folding is the process by which proteins achieve their mature functional (native) tertiary structure, and often begins co-translationally. Protein folding requires chaperones and often ...

Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. Moreover, protein folding doesn’t happen in isolation. Inside cells there are specialized molecules called ...

The demonstration that the native state of a long lived protease is less stable than a partially folded 'molten globule' like state shatters long standing preconceptions about protein folding.

They identify how altered protein folding drives multicellular evolution. In a new study led by researchers from the University of Helsinki and the Georgia Institute of Technology, scientists ...