When a protein folds, its string of amino acids wiggles and jiggles through countless conformations before it forms ... there are simultaneous things going in your field of view—with multiple hydrogen ...

Amino acids are small molecules that are the building blocks of proteins. Proteins serve as structural support inside the cell and they perform many vital chemical reactions. Each protein is a ...

The color represents the sensitivity of each amino acid residue to mutations ... that a recessive mutation in the CRX protein, which is important for eye function, destabilizes the protein ...