Path D - Module 24: Peptide Synthesis

Many natural toxins work by plugging the pore of ion channels. In this module, you will learn to use build_peptide() to synthesize a small fragment of a scorpion toxin (e.g., Charybdotoxin) to study its blocking mechanism.

import molsysmt as msm
from molsysmt import systems

# Build a toxin fragment peptide
toxin = msm.build.build_peptide('KCKP')

print(f"Toxin fragment synthesized. Atoms: {msm.get(toxin, element='system', n_atoms=True)}")
msm.view(toxin)