A laboratory experiment suggests caffeine may boost E. coli’s antibiotic resistance. However, whether this discovery applies ...

Kyoto University. "Large transporter protein linked to schizophrenia." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 29 December 2020. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 12 / 201229080250.htm>.

Swapping a single amino acid in a simple bacterial protein changes its structure and function, revealing the effects of complex gene evolution, finds a new study published in the journal eLife. The ...

The expression of a transporter protein called the Breast Cancer Resistance Protein (BCRP) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients may indicate higher disease activity and could be a barrier to the ...

Indeed, this approach was utilized for GPCRs to show a network of contacts that are predominantly between TMHs 1–2, 1–7, 3–4, 3–5, and 6–7 (Venkatakrishnan et al., 2013). Defining similar contacts ...

transporter protein Protein Zippers Jef Akst | May 31, 2013 | 2 min read Matching up positive and negative charges on two of its subunits may allow the TatA membrane transporter to penetrate the lipid ...

Researchers at the University of Bath have developed a new technology that—for many patients—could make injections a thing of ...

Summary: The choline transporter protein regulates habituation to smells in fruit fly brains. Source: PLOS In habituation, an organism gets so used to a ubiquitous sight, smell, sensation, or sound ...

Protein design aims to create customized antibodies for therapies, biosensors for diagnostics, or enzymes for chemical reactions. An international research team has now developed a method for ...

Henry-York Steiner, Wei Song, Larry Zhang, Fred Naider, Jeffrey M. Becker, Gary Stacey, An Arabidopsis Peptide Transporter Is a Member of a New Class of Membrane Transport Proteins, The Plant Cell, ...