Lighting the way to folding next-level origami
E-Mail IMAGE: Using EMBL Hamburg's world-class beamline P12 at DESY's PETRA III synchrotron, researchers directed powerful X-ray beams at artificial proteins called coiled-coil origami proteins. view more Credit: Credit: Fabio Lapenta / National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia Origami may sound more like art than science, but a complex folding pathway that proteins use to determine their shape has been harnessed by molecular biologists, enabling them to build some of the most complex synthetic protein nanostructures to date. Using EMBL Hamburg's world-class beamline P12 ...
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