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Glutathione balance in the ER, controlled by SLC33A1, is essential for proper protein folding and disease prevention.

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Scientists at Durham University, working in partnership with Jagiellonian University in Poland, have developed a new ...

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Michael Levitt, the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, recently arrived in Beijing and made a special trip to the office of Hu ...

(spidroins) through long-read transcriptomics across a broad phylogenetic range, with theoretical implications for protein family evolution, biomaterials, and silk biology. By identifying putative ...

Egg cells need to store large amounts of proteins and other molecules to support the earliest stages of development. But how do they organize this supply? Egg cells have a dedicated storage system, ...

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A new LMU study shows how proteins function reliably even without a stable 3D structure – and the crucial importance not only of short sequence motifs, but also of the chemical characteristics. Many ...

Abstract: Protein structures are fundamental to understanding biological function, yet many detailed similarities remain hidden from conventional alignment-based or 3D superposition methods.

Scientists have just organized an enormous collection of predicted protein shapes into families, using artificial intelligence and a powerful new comparison method. Working from AlphaFold models ...