Amino acids are organic compounds that serve as the fundamental building blocks of proteins. They play a crucial role in the structure, function, and regulation of the body's tissues and organs. Amino ...

Machine-learning models can then use those sequence embeddings to accurately predict each amino acid’s function based on its predicted 3-D structural “context” — its position and contact with other ...

Amino acids are the building blocks that form polypeptides and ultimately proteins. Consequently, they are fundamental components of our bodies and vital for physiological functions such as protein ...

To confirm glutamine's role in vision, the researchers used mice that lacked the enzyme glutaminase, which breaks down ...

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Enormous computational efforts have been carried out to predict structure and function of protein. However, nearly all of these efforts have been focused on prediction of function based on primary ...

Diverse functions of homologous actin isoforms are defined by their nucleotide, rather than their amino acid sequence. eLife, 2017; 6 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.31661 ...

We investigated the effects on tuberin function of 15 different amino-acid changes: R367Q, N525S, K599M, A607T, 609insS, R611Q, R611W, A614D, F615S, C696Y, V769E, L826M, R905Q, P1202H and G1556S.

"Since the fatty acids are signaling messengers that can trigger a chain of events affecting many cellular functions, they are heavily studied by researchers," Dr. Wang said.