When a cell receives a message from outside, it generates a molecule called cyclic AMP (cAMP) to relay this message. To ...

Dynamin is a protein that plays a central role in endocytosis—the process where cells internalize substances by wrapping them ...

Membrane protein transport and quality control are central to yeast cell homeostasis, ensuring that proteins reach their correct cellular destinations while aberrant or damaged proteins are ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a protein that causes human cell membranes to break open in a ...

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...

Computer simulations revealed the detailed mechanism of how the protein "dynamin" works to form small vesicles within cells.While dynamin uses GTP ...

Pancreatic cancers are aggressive and deadly, with high rates of metastasis and poor prognosis. The tumour environment is also hypoxic: the cells rapidly divide and thrive in very low oxygen ...

New technique to image single lipids: Lipids are notoriously difficult to detect with light microscopy. Using a new chemical labeling strategy, the Dresden team has overcome this limitation, enabling ...