News tagged with bacterial proteins


Elevated arginase levels contribute to vascular eye disease such as diabetic retinopathy

Elevated arginase levels contribute to vascular eye disease such as diabetic retinopathy

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Elevated levels of the enzyme arginase contribute to vascular eye damage and Medical College of Georgia researchers say therapies to normalize its levels could halt progression of potentially blinding diseases ...


Expression of infrared fluorescence engineered in mammals

Expression of infrared fluorescence engineered in mammals

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, San Diego - led by 2008 Nobel-Prize winner Roger Tsien, PhD - have shown that bacterial proteins called phytochromes can be engineered into infrared-fluorescent ...





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Researchers make significant strides in identifying cause of bacterial infections

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Several bacterial pathogens use toxins to manipulate human host cells, ultimately disturbing cellular signal transduction. Until now, however, scientists have been able to track down only a few of the proteins that interact ...


How manuka honey helps fight infection

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Manuka honey may kill bacteria by destroying key bacterial proteins. Dr Rowena Jenkins and colleagues from the University of Wales Institute - Cardiff investigated the mechanisms of manuka honey action and found that its ...


Researchers discover a way to strengthen proteins

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Proteins, which perform such vital roles in our bodies as building and maintaining tissues and regulating cellular processes, are a finicky lot. In order to work properly, they must be folded just so, yet many proteins readily ...


Scientists Present 'Moving' Theory Behind Bacterial Decision-Making

Scientists Present 'Moving' Theory Behind Bacterial Decision-Making

Chemistry /

created Nov 21, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biochemists at North Carolina State University have answered a fundamental question of how important bacterial proteins make life-and-death decisions that allow them to function, a finding ...


Closer to an effective treatment for gum disease in smokers

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Scientists in the USA have discovered why smokers may be more prone to chronic gum disease (periodontitis). One of the bacteria responsible for this infection responds to cigarette smoke - changing its properties and the ...


Researchers uncover secrets of salmonella's stealth attack

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A single crafty protein allows the deadly bacterium Salmonella enterica to both invade cells lining the intestine and hijack cellular functions to avoid destruction, Yale researchers report in the April 17 issue of the jo ...


Researchers Clone and Engineer Bacterial Genomes in Yeast and Transplant Genomes Back into Bacterial Cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing new methods in which the entire bacterial genome from Mycoplasma mycoides was cloned ...


New family of antibacterial agents uncovered

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created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

As bacteria resistant to commonly used antibiotics continue to increase in number, scientists keep searching for new sources of drugs. In this week's JBC, one potential new bactericide has been found in the tiny freshwater animal ...


Going from ulcers to cancer

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 22, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers have uncovered a big clue as to why some of the bacteria that cause stomach ulcers pose a greater risk for serious problems like stomach cancer than others; it turns out these bacteria can exploit the surrounding ...


Communication breakdown: New strategy may be valid alternative to traditional antibiotics

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Certainly there is strength in numbers, but only if those numbers can effectively communicate with one another. Now, a new study finds that administration of a novel small molecule which effectively disrupts a key bacterial ...



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