Refining pesticides to kill pests, not bees
Pyrethroid pesticides are effective. Sometimes too effective.
Plants & Animals
Nov 21, 2017
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News tagged with amino acid residues
Last unknown structure of HIV-1 solved, another step in efforts to disarm the AIDS virus
A University of Alabama at Birmingham team led by Jamil Saad, Ph.D., has solved the last unknown protein structure of HIV-1, the retrovirus that can cause AIDS.
Biochemistry
Oct 19, 2017
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Sharpest image of Alzheimer's fibrils shows previously unknown details
A team of researchers from Germany and the Netherlands has determined the structure of an amyloid fibril with previously unachieved resolution. The fibrils of the body's own amyloid beta (Aβ) protein are the main constituent ...
Biochemistry
Sep 8, 2017
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New study shines light on photosynthesis
Terry Bricker, Moreland Family Professor in the Louisiana State University (LSU) Department of Biological Sciences, and colleagues at Palacký University in the Czech Republic and at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio have ...
Biotechnology
Mar 7, 2017
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Using super-slow motion movie, scientists pin down the workings of a key proton pump
Using powerful new tools, scientists from the RIKEN SPring-8 Center and collaborators have demonstrated how bacteriorhodopsin, a "proton pump", uses light to transport protons across the cell membrane to create a charge difference ...
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 22, 2016
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Revealing the inner workings of a molecular motor
In research published in the Journal of Cell Biology, scientists from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have made important steps toward understanding how dynein—a "molecular motor"—walks along tube-like structures ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 12, 2015
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Small change makes a big difference for ion channels
Using a high-resolution single-molecule study technique, University of Illinois researchers have seen the very subtle differences between two branches of an important family of neurotransmitter-gated ion channels.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 2, 2011
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Research unveils how plants control the production of reactive oxygen species
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are highly reactive molecules containing oxygen. These compounds, which are normal byproducts of biological processes in all living organisms such as aerobic respiration as well as photosynthesis, ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 24, 2024
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A graphical user interface for analysis and design of protein–peptide interactions
Proteins function through interactions with other proteins or peptides, a complex process that is still not fully understood. Current research focuses on how amino acid residues interact in protein-protein or protein-peptide ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 11, 2023
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Broad bean thrives despite a hyperactive ion channel, finds study
Plants in which an ion channel of the vacuole is hyperactive are extremely stressed and grow poorly. But the broad bean is an exception, as Würzburg researchers have discovered. Their research is published in the journal ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 24, 2023
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