Research groups at University of Helsinki and Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, discovered a new molecular mechanism that promotes cell migration. The discovery sheds light on the mechanisms that drive uncontrolled movement ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 9, 2021
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Temperatures of -196 degrees Celsius enable high-resolution imaging of the cell's interior. Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria are thus able to show for the first time how the active form ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 22, 2020
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A visualization made from nearly 100,000 electron microscope images has revealed the ingenious way a protein involved in muscle activity shuts itself down to conserve energy.
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 2, 2020
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What does the defense against bacterial infections have in common with hearing or fertilization? Key players in these and many other crucial biological processes belong to a large family of extracellular proteins using a ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 16, 2020
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Actin is among the most abundant proteins in cells, and it has many jobs—from giving the cell its very shape and structure to managing networks of proteins crucial to numerous cellular functions. Without it, the fragile ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 26, 2020
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It might look like a little game at the molecular scale.
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 14, 2020
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A chameleonlike protein in neurons can change its mind, and in the process change our brains.
Biochemistry
Aug 25, 2020
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AMOLF researchers have presented a theory that describes the friction between biological filaments that are crosslinked by proteins. Surprisingly, their theory predicts that the friction force scales highly nonlinearly with ...
General Physics
Aug 14, 2020
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Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC) developed a mouse model that enables them to look inside a working muscle and identify the proteins that allow the sarcomere ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 19, 2020
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The cytoskeleton is a permanent construction site consisting of protein filaments that are continually lengthening and shortening in a dynamic process. Through these remodeling processes, the cell can change its shape and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 24, 2020
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