News Medical

Structural Motifs in Protein Biology

All proteins are made of basic secondary structure units, either α-helix or β-sheets, determined by hydrogen bonding between the amino acids within a peptide chain. On a larger scale, structures are ...
News Medical

Motif-based SARS-CoV-2 protein-human protein interactions as potential antiviral target sites

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers performed a ProP-PD (proteomic peptide phage display) analysis to identify peptides from intrinsically disordered human (host) ...
The Scientist

Viruses Target Super-Short Protein Motifs to Disrupt Host Biology

Only recently appreciated as critical components of cellular functions, unstructured stretches of amino acids called SLiMs are key to viral-host interactions. During an early COVID-19 lockdown in ...
Food

‘Impossible Foods did not invent heme protein…’ Motif files motion to stay Impossible Foods lawsuit pending review of key patent

Impossible Foods’ ‘heme’ is identical to soy leghemoglobin, a protein found in nodules attached to the roots of nitrogen-fixing plants such as soy. Motif FoodWorks’ new HEMAMI ingredient is identical ...
Food

‘A gamechanger for flavor in meat alternatives…’ Motif FoodWorks to launch heme-binding protein delivering ‘flavor and aroma of real meat’

Motif FoodWorks has submitted a GRAS notification for myoglobin, a heme-binding protein found in the muscle tissue of cows that Motif is expressing in a genetically engineered yeast strain. The ...
FoodBusinessNews

Motif to develop animal-free dairy protein

BOSTON — Food technology developer Motif FoodWorks is partnering with Vectron Biosolutions to create a new wave of animal-free proteins. Building on their previous collaborative efforts from the last ...