The low numbers are not for lack of interest. Membrane proteins help coordinate pretty much everything a cell does; knowing their structures could help reveal how they do so. Researchers at ...

Extracellular vesicles carry proteins and other molecules from donor to recipient cells to alter physiological ... to maintain any structure which has a membrane," Singh said.

A new study shows how an anticancer drug triggers an "outside in" signal that gets it sucked into a cancer cell.

A protein called fascin binds and bridges pairs of actin filaments, stitching them into bundles. These bundles are then encased in long membrane tubes to form filopodia, which must be strong enough to ...

"The complex recognizes the right vessel, the right place on the cell surface and the right time for the cargo to be delivered. It does that by talking to the membrane fusion protein." More ...

A new study shows how an anticancer drug triggers an "outside in" signal that gets it sucked into a cancer cell. The work, ...

Current technologies for studying membrane proteins either involve expression in cell-based systems, which can lead to high background from contaminating endogenous proteins, or purification using ...

Topological confinement by a membrane anchor suppresses phase separation into protein aggregates: Implications for prion diseases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 122 (1 ...

Protein aggregation is typical of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and prion diseases such as Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. A research team headed by Professor Jörg Tatzelt ...