Designed expansion of hydrophobic contacts converts a coiled-coil tetramer to a true hexamer, a new protein fold previously deemed unlikely to exist. The complex has a central channel sized to allow ...

Coiled coils are extensively and successfully used nowadays to rationally design multistranded structures for applications, including basic research, biotechnology, nanotechnology, materials science, ...

HOUSTON - (Jan. 2, 2020) - It turns out the coiled snakes often used to symbolize medical knowledge are more than apt. They also mimic a key to life itself. Members of Rice's Center for Theoretical ...

The biological functions of coiled coils generally depend on efficient folding and perfect pairing of their α-helices. Dynamic changes in the helical registry that lead to staggered helices have only ...

The shift to drilling horizontal laterals, especially in shale oil and gas plays in the US, has led companies often to use coiled tubing units for well completion and intervention work, concludes a ...