The present communication describes the results of an investigation into the products formed when papain acts on wool keratin. This reaction has been described previously 1; but little is known ...

A team of materials scientists from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, the University of Milano-Bicocca, and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia via Morego, all in Italy, has found a way to use keratin to ...

Perotto and colleagues took advantage of the thiol groups on the cysteine amino acids in keratin. They thought they could link the thiols to carbon-carbon double bonds using a simple Michael-type ...