Proteins in cells are highly flexible and often exist in multiple conformations, each with unique abilities to bind ligands.

The brain's ability to process information is known to be supported by intricate connections between different neuron ...

Cancer cells have an insatiable appetite for energy as they multiply more rapidly than normal cells. Greedy cancer cells ...

As well as degrading proteins, the proteosome surprisingly also functions in human defence against bacterial infection. By ...

DNA repair proteins act like the body's editors, constantly finding and reversing damage to our genetic code. Researchers ...

A new study has unveiled a precise picture of how an ion channel found in most mammalian cells regulates its own function ...

The Cas9 protein is the most widely used by scientists. This protein can easily be programmed to find and bind to almost any desired target sequence, simply by giving it a piece of RNA to guide it ...

Protein folding is the process by which proteins achieve their mature functional (native) tertiary structure ... peptide displays bactericidal activity through a different mechanism, inducing ...

Mar. 5, 2025 — Antimalarial drug resistance is a pressing issue in combating the spread of malaria worldwide. In a new study, researchers discovered a key process where malarial parasites take ...

The application of the type II CRISPR effector protein Cas9 as a sequence-specific nuclease in gene editing has revolutionized this field. Similarly, Cas13 as the effector protein of type VI provides ...

Like, cas3 protein present in type I, cas9 protein present in type II, and cas10 protein present only in type III system. Up till now, phylogenetically, only type II systems have been identified in ...