News tagged with cellular proteins
Hoping for a fluorescent basket case: How HIV is assembled and released from infected cells
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Although recent advances have raised hopes that a protective vaccine can be developed, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) remains a major public health problem. Much has been learned about HIV-1, the virus that causes ...
Of yeast and men: Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of Friedreich's ataxia
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Researchers in human genetics have long known that expansions of GAA repeats - resulting in this nucleotide triplet repeating hundreds or thousands of times - cause the most common hereditary neurological disorder known as ...
The clock watcher: Circadian rhythms research is shedding light on the causes of disease and aging
May 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Embedded in our genes is a "clock" that regulates when we sleep, when we are awake and when we eat. This human clock manages what are known as circadian rhythms, 24-hour biological cycles ...
'Disordered' amino acids may really be there to provide wiggle room for signaling protein
May 26, 2009 |
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Sections of proteins previously thought to be disordered may in fact have an unexpected biological role - providing certain proteins room to move -- according to a study published by researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center ...
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A Cell's Private Life: Researchers Peer Inside a Hidden Protein
Aug 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To understand the molecular machinery of the human body, scientists have to be able to observe the structure of cellular proteins. This has been particularly challenging for those proteins ...
Researchers Find Tools Needed To Build a Cellular Shredder
May 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers have discovered a set of cellular chaperones needed to assemble a proteasome, the cellular workhorse that recycles proteins and is crucial for the existence of all eukaryotic cells.
Misfolded proteins: The fundamental problem is aging
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Proteins are essential for all biological activities and the health of the cell. Misfolded and damaged proteins spell trouble and are common to all human neurodegenerative diseases and many other age-associated diseases. ...
Polycystins : proteins that regulate the cellular barometer
Nov 05, 2009 |
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What is the role of proteins called polycystins in patients with polycystic kidney disease? A team of researchers from CNRS and INSERM, led by Eric Honoré from the Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire ...
Breakthrough uses light to manipulate cell movement
Aug 19, 2009 |
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One of the biggest challenges in scientists' quest to develop new and better treatments for cancer is gaining a better understanding of how and why cancer spreads. Recent breakthroughs have uncovered how ...
Common weed could provide clues on aging and cancer
Oct 26, 2009 |
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A common weed and human cancer cells could provide some very uncommon details about DNA structure and its relationship with telomeres and how they affect cellular aging and cancer, according to a team led by scientists from ...
Small nanoparticles bring big improvement to medical imaging
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 18, 2009 |
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If you're watching the complex processes in a living cell, it is easy to miss something important—especially if you are watching changes that take a long time to unfold and require high-spatial-resolution ...
Protein interaction network can respond Helicobacter pylori infection?
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) is a gram negative bacterium which infects about 50% of the world population. H pylori colonization causes a strong systemic immune response. Various tools have been employed to identify the rela ...
Researchers find that protein believed to protect against cancer has a Mr. Hyde side
Sep 03, 2009 |
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In a biological rendition of fiction's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, researchers from the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida and Harvard Medical School have found that a protein thought to protect against cancer development ...
How manuka honey helps fight infection
Sep 07, 2009 |
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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 ...
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