Loops to tie a knot in proteins? - Code for life
Grant Jacobs • Jul 30, 2010 •
Most proteins fold onto themselves without forming knots. A minority form a ’topologically entangled conformation’, a knot. Proteins are strings of amino acids, chained together one after the other. (Source: WIkimedia Commons.) The properties of proteins depends on their specific three-dimensional fold, how the chain of amino acids are arranged in … Read More