{"id":145512,"date":"2022-09-03T01:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T06:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/new-study-confirms-rippled-sheet-protein-structure-predicted-in-1953"},"modified":"2022-09-03T01:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T06:22:20","slug":"new-study-confirms-rippled-sheet-protein-structure-predicted-in-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/new-study-confirms-rippled-sheet-protein-structure-predicted-in-1953","title":{"rendered":"New study confirms \u2018rippled sheet\u2019 protein structure predicted in 1953"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-confirms-rippled-sheet-protein-structure-predicted-in-1953.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An unusual protein structure known as a \u201crippled beta sheet,\u201d first predicted in 1953, has now been created in the laboratory and characterized in detail using X-ray crystallography.<\/p>\n<p>The new findings, published in July in <i>Chemical Science<\/i>, may enable the rational design of unique materials based on the rippled sheet architecture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study establishes the rippled beta sheet layer configuration as a motif with general features and opens the road to structure-based design of unique molecular architectures, with potential for materials development and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/biomedical+applications\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">biomedical applications<\/a>,\u201d said Jevgenij Raskatov, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Cruz and corresponding author of the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual protein structure known as a \u201crippled beta sheet,\u201d first predicted in 1953, has now been created in the laboratory and characterized in detail using X-ray crystallography. The new findings, published in July in Chemical Science, may enable the rational design of unique materials based on the rippled sheet architecture. \u201cOur study establishes the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}