HOUSTON--(March 16, 2002)--The failure of dystrophin, one of the building blocks that literally holds heart muscle cells together, can cause dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), a condition in which the ...

Membrane proteins and membrane lipids are essential partners in various biological processes, and elucidating their ...

Researchers have determined that condensates are electrically charged droplets that can induce voltage changes across the ...

Located at the cellular interface, membrane proteins play critical regulatory roles in the signaling between a cell and its interacting environment, making them popular and ideal drug targets.

Cellular membrane proteins play important roles in cellular transport, signaling, and cell-to-cell communication. Malfunction in membrane proteins can lead to serious diseases, such as cancer. However ...

Protein aggregation is typical of various neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and prion diseases such as Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. A research team has now used new in vitro and ...

Researchers have created a deep learning pipeline for designing soluble analogues of key protein structures used in pharmaceutical development, sidestepping the prohibitive cost of extracting these ...

Cells have always hummed with activity. They make their own energy, package it into molecules like ATP, and spend it ...

Membrane proteins are ubiquitous cellular components that are responsible for a wide array of cellular and molecular activities, including drug metabolism, lipid shuttling, and antibiotic resistance.

Study data indicate that membrane perforation registers as danger and is sufficient to launch type 2 immune pathways in the airway epithelium. The authors argue that many otherwise unrelated allergens ...