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Recycler protein helps prevent disease

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Recycling is important not only on a global scale, but also at the cellular level, since key molecules tend to be available in limited numbers. This means a cell needs to have efficient recycling mechanisms. Researchers at ...





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Iron-sulfur Custer Molecule

Researchers witness assembly of molecules critical to protein function

Chemistry /

created Jun 16, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A Virginia Tech research group lead by two biochemistry graduate students has isolated proteins responsible for the iron-sulfur cluster assembly process and witnessed the necessary protein interactions in ...


Detailed surface features of the matrix protein

Matrix protein key to fighting viruses

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers from Durham University's Centre for Bioactive Chemistry are developing methods that show how proteins interact with cell membranes when a virus strikes. Using their approach, the team hopes to ...


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Lost in translation: Perfectionist protein-maker trashes errors

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created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The enzyme machine that translates a cell's DNA code into the proteins of life is nothing if not an editorial perfectionist.


Double success for Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia scientists working on chromosome segregation

Portuguese scientists working on chromosome segregation

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lars Jansen's work on the formation of the centromere, a key cellular structure in powering and controlling chromosome segregation and accurate cell division, has just earned him a paper in Nature Cell Bi ...


Researchers discover 'modus operandi' of heart muscle protein

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 10, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that a protein called leiomodin (Lmod) promotes the assembly of an important heart muscle protein called actin. What’s more, Lmod directs the ...


New insight into human ciliopathy

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In the September 1st issue of G&D, Dr. Karen Oegema (UCSD) and colleagues identify the molecular basis of the lethal developmental disorder, hydrolethalus syndrome, and reveal that hydrolethalus syndrome actually belongs to the ...


Shape of things to come: Structure of HIV coat could lead to new drugs

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Structural biologists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have described the architecture of the complex of protein units that make up the coat surrounding the HIV genome and identified in it a "seam" of functional ...


Scientists visualize assembly line gears in ribosomes, cell's protein factory

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Even as research on the ribosome, one of the cell's most basic machines, is recognized with a Nobel Prize, scientists continue to achieve new insights on the way ribosomes work.


Scientists deconstruct cell division

Scientists deconstruct cell division

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created Feb 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The last step of the cell cycle is the brief but spectacularly dynamic and complicated mitosis phase, which leads to the duplication of one mother cell into two daughter cells. In mitosis, the chromosomes ...


New electron microscopy images reveal the assembly of HIV

New electron microscopy images reveal the assembly of HIV

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the University Clinic Heidelberg, Germany, have produced a three-dimensional reconstruction of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), which shows ...



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