Animals such as spiders make fibers which are strong and elastic. These fibers have a polypeptide structure and serve as inspiration for research into the development of functional materials.

Advances in N-carboxyanhydride (NCA) ring-opening polymerization are making polypeptide synthesis faster, more moisture-resistant, and easier to scale. New initiators, solvent systems, and process ...

In addition, it is expected that synthesizing these new polypeptide fibers using plant-derived amino acid as a starter will enable the development of next-generation biomaterials that meet the needs ...

An illustration showing how the nascent polypeptide-associated complex (NAC, green) at the ribosome (blue) helps the amino acid chain (white) to fold into a protein. In the earliest phase of creating ...

The diagram illustrates the key stages of protein synthesis in a eukaryotic cell. It begins with transcription to produce pre-mRNA in the nucleus (1), followed by post-transcriptional modification (2) ...