News tagged with integral membrane
Groundbreaking discovery may lead to stronger antibiotics
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Oct 01, 2008 |
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The last decade has seen a dramatic decline in the effectiveness of antibiotics, resulting in a mounting public health crisis across the world. A new breakthrough by University of Virginia researchers provides physicians ...
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Study: Why cold is such a pain
Jun 14, 2007 |
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German scientists have identified a key molecule that helps animals feel pain associated with low temperatures.
Scientists study structure of Wza protein
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Nov 08, 2006 |
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Scottish scientists have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of Wza, an integral outer-membrane protein that has been linked to virulence.
New Nanoparticles Could Revolutionize Therapeutic Drug Discovery
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Jul 24, 2009 |
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Understanding the structure of proteins is a vital first step in developing new drugs, but to date, researchers have had difficulty studying the large number of proteins that are normally embedded in the cell membrane, a ...
Study shows how disruption of spectrin-actin network causes lens cells in the eye to lose shape
Sep 14, 2009 |
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A network of proteins underlying the plasma membrane keeps epithelial cells in shape and maintains their orderly hexagonal packing in the mouse lens, say Nowak et al. The study will appear in the September ...
Scientists obtain clearer view of how eye lens proteins are sorted
Nov 03, 2009 |
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New research reveals how proteins that are critical for the transparency of the eye lens are properly sorted and localized in membrane bilayers. The study, published by Cell Press in the November 3rd issue of Biophysical Jo ...
Nanoresearchers challenge dogma in protein transportation in cells
Sep 21, 2009 |
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New data on signaling proteins, called G proteins, may prove important in fighting diseases such as cardiovascular, neurodegenerative disorders, and cancer. For many decades scientists have puzzled on "How ...
Integral satellite disproves dark matter origin for mystery radiation
Jul 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers working with data from ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory has disproved theories that some form of dark matter explains mysterious radiation in the Milky Way.
Carnegie donates landmark clones to biology
Aug 06, 2009 |
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With the information explosion, it's remarkable that so little is known about the interactions that proteins have with each other and the protective membrane that surrounds a cell. These interactive, so-called membrane proteins ...
Hearing on the wing: New structure discovered in butterfly ears
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A clever structure in the ear of a tropical butterfly that potentially makes it able to distinguish between high and low pitch sounds has been discovered by scientists from the University ...
A new 'bent' on fusion
Aug 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Success in soccer sometimes comes with "bending it like Beckham." Success in cellular fusion -- as occurs at the moment of conception and when nerve cells exchange neurotransmitters -- requires that a membrane ...
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