Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: A Life Connected with Science -------- By Ronald D. Vale
"I feel that my greatest prize has been the privilege of a life connected with science. I have enjoyed innumerable discoveries, both my own and those of others, and I have met many kind and interesting people along the way. My best advice to young scientists is to keep your eyes on these pri...
Prof. David Baker shared his insights on de novo protein design with PNAS, talking about transmembrane protein design.
"If you want to build an airplane, you don’t start by modifying a bird; instead, you understand the first principles of aerodynamics and build flying machines from those principles. As we get closer to solving the protein folding problem, we can now design completely new proteins from ...
The coming of age of de novo protein design
There are 20200 possible amino-acid sequences for a 200-residue protein, of which the natural evolutionary process has sampled only an infinitesimal subset. De novo protein design explores the full sequence space, guided by the physical principles that underlie prote...
De novo Protein Design---Science's Breakthrough of the Year, 2016
"Designing new proteins from scratch has been a hit-or-miss activity. It’s easy enough to write any desired DNA code, but researchers have had no way of knowing how the novel strings of amino acids encoded by this DNA would fold into complex 3D shapes. That’s a problem, beca...
Three-dimensional structure of human γ-secretase
The γ-secretase complex, comprising presenilin 1 (PS1), PEN-2, APH-1 and nicastrin, is a membrane-embedded protease that controls a number of important cellular functions through substrate cleavage. Aberrant cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) results in aggregation of amyl...