News tagged with proteins function


Powerful online tool for protein analysis provided pro bono by Stanford geneticist

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists around the world may benefit from a powerful new database, available for free online, that will help them to home in on the parts of proteins most necessary for their function.





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Disordered proteins sensitive to environment, sequence changes

Disordered proteins sensitive to environment, sequence changes

Biology / Other

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research published by a team of Indiana University bioinformaticists has shown quantitatively the influence of small sequence changes and environmental conditions on the disordered regions ...


New age of discovery for new proteins dawns

New age of discovery for new proteins dawns

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- We are on the brink of another new age of discovery- this time of countless new proteins, which could be used in a whole range of situations from medicine to industry, following the successful ...


Fly eyes help researchers 'see' new proteins involved in memory

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With more than 1,500 eyes, not much escapes the fruit fly's sight. Now, a new research report in the journal Genetics, describes how researchers from the United States and Ireland used those eyes to "see" new proteins necess ...


How proteins talk to each other: Caspase-3 cleaves in unforeseen ways

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research have identified novel cleavage sites for the enzyme caspase-3 (an enzyme that proteolytically cleaves target proteins). Using an advanced proteomic technique called ...


Research shows power of FRET-based approach for distinguishing among distinct states of proteins

Medicine & Health / Research

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

In the December 2009 issue of the Journal of General Physiology, Moss et al. report a comprehensive investigation employing Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) to study the {gamma}-amino acid (GABA) transporter GAT1, ...


New function for the protein Bcl-xL: It prevents bone breakdown

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In blood cells, the protein Bcl-xL has a well-characterized role in preventing cell death by a process known as apoptosis. However, its function(s) in osteoclasts, cells that slowly breakdown bone (a process known as resorption), ...


Researchers identify mechanism that helps bacteria avoid destruction in cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 10, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Infectious diseases currently cause about one-third of all human deaths worldwide, more than all forms of cancer combined. Advances in cell biology and microbial genetics have greatly enhanced understanding of the cause and ...


Protein interaction network can respond Helicobacter pylori infection?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Pre-eclampsia linked to thyroid problems

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Women who develop pre-eclampsia during pregnancy are more likely than other women to have reduced thyroid function (hypothyroidism), finds a study published in BMJ today. It may also put women at a greater risk of thyroi ...


The hidden lives of proteins

The hidden lives of proteins

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

An important Brandeis study appearing in the December 3 issue of Nature raises the curtain on the hidden lives of proteins at the atomic level. The study reports that for the first time, researchers used x ...



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