Protein mimetic

A protein mimetic is a molecule such as a peptide, a modified peptide or any other molecule that biologically mimics the action or activity of some other protein. Protein mimetics are commonly used in drug design and discovery.

Types of mimetics

There are a number of different distinct classes of protein mimetics.

gollark: It would probably be useful to make it track the pearls you throw.
gollark: <@236628809158230018> Why would you want anything but the xz plane?
gollark: It's just "Lua".
gollark: Lua isn't an acronym by the way.
gollark: It's kind of unintuitive.

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