News tagged with proteasome
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How cells dispose of their waste
German researchers reveal the structure of cellular protein degradation machinery.
Jan 23, 2012 |
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Researchers identify potential new drug for neurodegenerative disease
Scientists have discovered a small molecule that helps human cells get rid of the misfolded, disfigured proteins implicated in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative ailments. This potential drug could have applications ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Researchers identify new, cancer-causing role for protein
The mainstay immune system protein TRAF6 plays an unexpected, key role activating a cell signaling molecule that in mutant form is associated with cancer growth, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. ...
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Researchers Find Tools Needed To Build a Cellular Shredder
(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers have discovered a set of cellular chaperones needed to assemble a proteasome, the cellular workhorse that recycles proteins and is crucial for the existence of all eukaryotic cells.
May 28, 2009 |
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KEAP1 Keeps major cancer-promoting protein at bay
A tumor-suppressing protein snatches up an important cancer-promoting enzyme and tags it with molecules that condemn it to destruction, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...
Oct 09, 2009 |
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When Good Cells Go Bad: Scientist Researchers Cellular Structure
(PhysOrg.com) -- While some biological research may not directly provide cures for major diseases, it can provide the scientific basis for research that might. Work by Kansas State University's Jeroen Roelofs is one such ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Harmful amyloid interferes with trash pickup for cells in Alzheimer's disease
Chemists at the University of California, San Diego, have identified how a protein that accumulates in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease interferes with the ability of cells to get rid of debris. ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 08, 2010 |
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