Using cryo-electron microscopy and mass spectrometry, researchers from PSI have deciphered the structure of an ion channel found in the eye while it interacts with the protein calmodulin—a structure that has eluded scientists ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 3, 2023
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A new research project uses the Canadian Light Source to help researchers understand the protein responsible for regulating heartbeats. Errors in this crucial protein's structure can lead to potentially deadly arrhythmias, ...
Biochemistry
Jan 14, 2019
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A common protein plays a different role than previously thought in the opening and closing of channels that let ions flow in and out of our cells, researchers at Johns Hopkins report. Those channels are critical to life, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 27, 2014
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Scientists at Johns Hopkins report they have figured out a key step in how "free" calcium—the kind not contained in bones—is managed in the body, a finding that could aid in the development of new treatments for a variety ...
Biochemistry
Jan 23, 2014
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Physicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are opening a new window into the life of biological cells, using a technique that lets them grab the ends of a single protein molecule and pull, making continuous, ...
General Physics
Oct 27, 2011
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