Stanford University: Researchers pioneer method to rapidly design proteins
- May 4
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Their strategy revealed new details that open the door to designing proteins with powerful abilities that could ultimately benefit medicine and manufacturing.
Studies reveal new molecular structure details that open a pathway in the drug delivery process.
Using bright X-rays from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), researchers pioneered an innovative approach to designing proteins with targeted functions. Their method generated new insights that allowed the team to turn a single designed protein into two new proteins with completely different functions – one of which is the most active designed enzyme to date.
