Although protein folding is a simple outcome of the underlying thermodynamics, arriving at a
quantitative and predictive understanding of how proteins fold nevertheless poses huge …

Here, we report that wild type Escherichia coli ribosomes accept and elongate precharged
initiator tRNAs acylated with multiple benzoic acids, including aramid precursors, as well as …

Dioxins and related compounds are environmental xenobiotics that are dangerous to human
life, due to the accumulation and persistence in the environment and in the food chain …

Peptide self-assembly represents a powerful bottom-up approach to the fabrication of
nanomaterials. β3-Peptides are non-natural peptides composed entirely of β-amino acids …

In this work, the vibrational characteristics of the amide-II modes in β-peptides in five helical
conformations, namely, 8-, 10-, 12-, 14-, and 10/12-helices, have been examined …

The genetic incorporation of unnatural amino acids (UAAs) with high efficiency and fidelity is
a powerful tool for the study of protein structure and dynamics with site-specificity in a …

In this work, linear infrared spectroscopy was used to examine the effect of salt on the amide-
II mode in a model β-peptide (N-ethylpropionamide, NEPA) in its deuterated form, to reveal …

In this work, a general applicable amide-I vibrational frequency map (GA map) for β-peptides
in a number of common solvents was constructed, based on a peptide derivative, N …

Peptide-based self-assembly has been used to produce a wide range of nanostructures.
While most of these systems involve self-assembly of α-peptides, more recently β-peptides …

We present a study of the infrared spectrum of N-methyl acetamide (NMA) performed by
using molecular dynamics (MD) with a quantum electronic Hamiltonian. A recently …