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Understanding biomolecular mechanism crucial to life: Calcium pumps in our cells Date: November 10, 2017 Source: Aarhus University Summary: Our cells move energy and matter to the places it is needed.
A new molecular pump capable of pumping other small molecules up an energy gradient has been developed by researchers at Northwestern University in the US. The new pump is very much like the protein ...
Each time a cell divides, a small section of each chromosome's protective cap—the telomere—is worn away. Most cells use an ...
The proteins MmpL5 and MmpL4 are efflux transporters, critical pumps that help the pathogen M. tuberculosis grow by scavenging essential iron from the iron-deprived lung granulomas of its human host.
When further developed, the molecular injectors could shuttle cancer immunotherapies only to tumor cells, sparing healthy ones and limiting side effects. The system can also safely tunnel into the ...
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg and ETH Zurich have created the first integrated map detailing the metabolic and molecular changes in human blood ...
In a recent study, researchers leveraged molecular jackhammering on cells induced by single-photon NIR light. They found that turning on the vibronic mode of aminocyanines connected to the cell ...
A new study into the molecular mechanisms underlying hair growth has found that aging cells may be key. Their findings potentially open the door to developing new hair loss treatments that harness ...
UCSF scientists have developed a “molecular GPS” to guide immune cells into the brain and kill tumors without harming healthy tissue. It is the first living cell therapy that can navigate through the ...
A study published in Science Advances shares new insights into how two of the most common types of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells kill cancer. Investigators from Baylor College of Medicine, ...
The molecular structure of the MmpL4 efflux pump in Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals a coiled-coil domain essential for exporting the siderophore mycobactin and for bedaquiline resistance.