DATASET REVOLUTIONIZES UNDERSTANDING OF BETA BARRELS, PROMISING TARGETS FOR VACCINE DEVELOPMENT
researchers from the University of Kansas have created a new and powerful dataset shedding light on different types of beta barrels as well as their evolutionary relationships in order to facilitate drug development. Their findings recently were published in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
According to co-author Joanna Slusky, associate professor of molecular biosciences and computational biology at KU who oversaw the research in her lab, the new understanding of beta barrels enables fresh lines of scientific inquiry as well as drug development.