Scientists create method for designing proteins that can bind and sense a range of small molecules
From growth hormones to cancer drugs, small molecules play a crucial role in our health. Monitoring them is essential to ...
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Breaking boundaries in biomedicine: Advanced Photon Source enables protein design
A team of scientists in the lab of Nobel Prize winner David Baker has created a method for designing proteins that can bind and sense a range of small molecules, with wide applications for biomedicine ...
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Transcriptional Dynamics Uncover the Role of BNIP3 in Mitophagy during Muscle Remodeling in Drosophila
This paper presents the important finding that BNIP3/NIX, a mitophagy receptor, and its binding to ATG18 are required for mitophagy during muscle cell reorganization in Drosophila. Although the ...
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Brief disruption of activity in a subset of dopaminergic neurons during consolidation impairs long-term memory by fragmenting sleep
Learn more about eLife assessments Sleep disturbances are associated with poor long-term memory (LTM) formation, yet the underlying cell types and neural circuits involved have not been fully decoded.
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Protein design articles from across Nature Portfolio
Protein design (or protein engineering) is a technique by which proteins with enhanced or novel functional properties are created. Proteins can be engineered by rational design, which typically ...
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30 High-Protein Snacks To Stay Full and Energized All Day
Thankfully, healthy snacking is possible. For example, choosing a high-protein snack between breakfast and lunch or before dinner can help keep you full and satisfied. Gone are the days of thinking ...
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Coming closer to a stoma ion channel
They produced transgenic plants carrying the SLAC1 gene product fused to green fluorescent protein (GFP), and found that this lit up the plasma membrane of guard cells, consistent with the ...