To ensure that protein production in our cells runs smoothly, the protein complex NAC slows down the rate of protein ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Disulfide bonds play a pivotal role in the folding and stability of many bacterial proteins, influencing not only their tertiary structure but also their biological activity. In bacteria, the ...

Every cell depends on proteins to function and stay healthy. These proteins are made inside the cell from amino acids, but ...

A newly developed luciferase-based reporter can detect problems in protein translocation and disulfide bond formation in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Inspired by natural mechanisms found in ...

Most organisms on Earth have the same basic genetic code, but it comes with some flaws. Scientists sought to work out those errors by creating their own artificial genome, which replaced E. coli’s ...

A UCLA-led research team has discovered a molecular switch that determines whether tiny blood vessels in premature infants' ...