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Proteins, some of which you see inside a cell here, carry out essentially all the important functions in our bodies.
Proteins digest your food, contract your muscles, fire your neurons and power your immune system.
Proteins are linear chains of building blocks called amino acids.
And it's the shapes of proteins which enable them to carry out their remarkable biological functions.
The shapes of proteins, and hence their remarkable functions, are completely specified by the sequence of amino acids in the protein chain.
The genes in your genome specify the amino acid sequences of your proteins.
The translation between these amino acid sequences and the structures and functions of proteins is known as the protein folding problem.
Because of this complexity, humans have only been able to harness the power of proteins by making very small changes to the amino acid sequences of the proteins we've found in nature.
We can now design completely new proteins from scratch on the computer.
Our advances in understanding protein folding and how to design proteins, coupled with the decreasing cost of gene synthesis and the Moore's law increase in computing power, now enable us to design tens of thousands of new proteins, with new shapes and new functions, on the computer, and encode each one of those in a synthetic gene.
Once we have those synthetic genes, we put them into bacteria to program them to make these brand-new proteins.
We then extract the proteins and determine whether they function as we designed them to and whether they're safe.
It's exciting to be able to make new proteins, because despite the diversity in nature, evolution has only sampled a tiny fraction of the total number of proteins possible.
I told you that nature uses an alphabet of 20 amino acids, and a typical protein is a chain of about 100 amino acids, so the total number of possibilities is 20 times 20 times 20, 100 times, which is a number on the order of 10 to the 130th power, which is enormously more than the total number of proteins which have existed since life on earth began.
Now the proteins that exist on earth evolved to solve the problems faced by natural evolution.
If we had a million years to wait, new proteins might evolve to solve those challenges.
Instead, with computational protein design, we can design new proteins to address these challenges today.
We've already shown that we can design new proteins with new shapes and functions.
To make better vaccines, we've designed protein particles to which we can fuse proteins from pathogens, like this blue protein here, from the respiratory virus RSV.
We've also designed new proteins to break down gluten in your stomach for celiac disease and other proteins to stimulate your immune system to fight cancer.
First, by taking proteins from flu strains from around the world and putting them on top of the designed protein particles I showed you earlier, we aim to make a universal flu vaccine, one shot of which gives a lifetime of protection against the flu.
A few years later, when I moved to Harvard first as a sabbatical, I became interested in another type of network: that time, the networks within ourselves, how the genes and the proteins and the metabolites link to each other and how they connect to disease.
You can go out and get your proteins, your RNA, your DNA, whatever.
Human flu viruses are covered in proteins adapted to bind with matching receptors on human respiratory cells.
Literally, think of proteins as subroutines that you can string together to execute a program.
And the ribosome here is another little computer that helps in the translation of the proteins.
What proteins are involved in signal transduction and also related to pyramidal neurons?
We need to get proteins, we need to get micronutrients, we need to get vitamins.
This condition is actually an autoimmune disease in which autoantibodies target natively produced proteins, some of which are secreted by cartilage cells.
This leads to the flood of enzymes and degradation seen in osteoarthritis, but is driven by different inflammatory proteins called cytokines.
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