Scientists at the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) and colleagues in Japan have revealed molecular mechanisms involved in eliminating unwanted cells in the body. A nuclear protein fragment released ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 26, 2021
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UT Southwestern researchers have identified the structure of a key member of a family of proteins called nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in three different shapes. The work, published online today in Cell, could eventually ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 17, 2021
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A team of scientists led by Dietmar Krautwurst from the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich has now identified address codes in odorant receptor proteins for the first time. Similar ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 17, 2021
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Plants perceive pathogens and activate immunity using two very different types of receptors. Receptors at the cell surface detect pathogen-derived molecules that accumulate outside plant cells, activating pattern-triggered ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 11, 2021
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A certain type of oil droplets changes shape when cooled and shrunk: from spherical through icosahedral to flat hexagonal. Two competing theories couldn't fully explain this, but now, a Physical Review Letter by Ireth García-Aguilar ...
General Physics
Jan 22, 2021
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Once regarded as merely cast-off waste products of cellular life, bacterial membrane vesicles (MVs) have since become an exciting new avenue of research, due to the wealth of biological information they carry to other bacteria ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 21, 2021
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An LMU research team led by Nicolai Siegel has uncovered a mechanism that enables the parasite that causes sleeping sickness in humans to escape the attention of the immune system. The finding may also be relevant to other ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 12, 2021
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Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore and Columbia University in the U.S. have solved how Wnt proteins, which play a fundamental role in cell proliferation and differentiation, hitch a ride to travel from ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 12, 2021
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A new class of protein material that interacts with living cells without being absorbed by them can influence cell signaling, a new study shows. The material does this by binding and sequestering cell surface receptors.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 6, 2021
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How can cells adhere to surfaces and move on them? This is a question which was investigated by an international team of researchers headed by Prof. Michael Hippler from the University of Münster and Prof. Kaiyao Huang from ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 29, 2020
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