Designed beta-barrel proteins (IMAGE)

University of Washington School of Medicine/UW Medicine

Designed beta-barrel proteins

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Newly designed beta-barrel proteins fold spontaneously into their intended structures and embed into lipid membranes. How the proteins were created from scratch, and their future potential in the construction of custom nanoscale tools, are described in the Feb. 19, 2021 edition of Science.

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Ian Haydon, UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design

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