News tagged with cleavage sites
How proteins talk to each other: Caspase-3 cleaves in unforeseen ways
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 ...
Sep 21, 2009 |
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New insights into how SARS pathogen infects host
(PhysOrg.com) -- When Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) first appeared in 2003, international cooperation helped contain the virulent coronavirus, which caused respiratory illness in more than 8,000 ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Ovastacin cuts off sperm binding
A study in The Journal of Cell Biology describes how a secreted enzyme helps egg cells avoid being fertilized by more than one sperm.
Apr 02, 2012 |
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Greenhouse gas-producing enzyme may yield insights into earliest oxygen-breathing ancestor evolution
Every year, nitrogen-metabolizing bacteria in the soil and seas churn out more than ten billion kilograms of nitrous oxide (N2O) gas as they respire in these oxygen-deficient environments.
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Camera on Curiosity's arm will magnify clues in rocks
NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, will wield an arm-mounted magnifying camera similar to one on the Mars Rover Opportunity, which promptly demonstrated its importance for reading environmental history from ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Identifying molecular guardian of cell's RNA
When most genes are transcribed, the nascent RNAs they produce are not quite ready to be translated into proteins - they have to be processed first. One of those processes is called splicing, a mechanism by ...
Oct 25, 2010 |
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Fight against cancer gets help from salmonella bacteria
Scientists have uncovered a novel mechanism by which Salmonella bacteria infect humans and say the discovery could potentially be exploited to kill cancerous cells.
Oct 25, 2010 |
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Promising new 'antigene' therapy
Antigene therapy is a promising new treatment strategy that uses a DNA-based drug to pinpoint light energy to a target gene shutting down its activity. A review article published online ahead of print in Oligonucleotides, a peer ...
Oct 21, 2010 |
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Protease associated with damage after stroke implicated in Huntington's toxicity
A new study reveals that an enzyme linked with multiple disorders is also involved in the generation of toxic, neuron-killing protein fragments in Huntington's disease (HD). The research, published by Cell Press in the July ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 28, 2010 |
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Understanding the APJ Receptor Binding Site
(PhysOrg.com) -- Apelin is a recently discovered peptide that binds to the apelin (or APJ) G-protein-coupled receptor. Apelin-13 (NH2-QRPRLSHKGPMPF-COOH), one of several cleavage products of the proprotein ...
Jun 01, 2010 |
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Scientists find two compounds that lay the foundation for a new class of AIDS drug
A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has identified two compounds that act on novel binding sites for an enzyme used by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS. The discovery lays ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 03, 2010 |
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Grooving down the helix: Researchers show how proteins slide along DNA to carry out vital biological processes
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists has made a major step in understanding how molecules locate the genetic information in DNA that is necessary to carry out important biological processes.
Dec 03, 2009 |
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