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miniprotein

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miniprotein
[min′iprō′tēn]
a protein that has been reduced to half its natural size without loss of its ability to function.


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Nastech has developed a new peptide library technology based on a 20 amino acid Trp cage miniprotein with multiple variable positions displayed o n bacteriophage T7 and has demonstrated that the library can be used to identify peptides that bind to specific cell types 1191 that may be suitable for the delivery of therapeutic siRNAs.
To induce apoptosis in cancer cells, Harbour and his colleagues synthesized a miniprotein resembling part of p53.
 
 
 
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