How do we think, feel, remember, or move? These processes involve synaptic transmission, in which chemical signals are transmitted between nerve cells using molecular containers called vesicles. Now, ...

A new study, published today in Nature Communications, offers clues into how APOE isoforms differentially affect human ...

New research shows that harmful E. coli bacteria in the gut can make the amoeba parasite Entamoeba histolytica more mobile ...

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coli, a simple model organism, to map how metabolites ... landscape of transcription factors and essential enzymes in E. coli, Cell (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.01.003 ...

coli), a common bacterium and well-studied model organism. "In the case of E. coli, the entire organism is a single cell," Wytock said. "It has many fewer genes than a human cell, some 4,000 genes ...

Abstract: Due to complex nature of metabolic pathways, E. coli metabolic model kinetic parameters are difficult to ... As a result of this new method, it was discovered that small-scale and even whole ...

that controls peptidoglycan remodeling during bacterial cell division. The authors capitalize on the finding that ATP binding stabilizes the FtsEX complex allowing structural characterization for this ...

In the dormant state, cells do not reproduce ... help fill in the gaps of the risk-assessment model, which will focus on practices to reduce E. coli O157:H7 risk during the window between romaine ...

This model is supported by the results of gel ... rather than outside the cell. E. coli can directly take up (‘eat’) deoxyribonucleotides (dNMPs) and deoxyribonucleosides when no other ...