Biochemists discover self-repair function in key photosynthetic protein complex
Cyanobacteria began contributing oxygen to Earth's mostly noxious atmosphere more than 2 billion years ago. The photosystem ...
Gut bacteria can alter brain proteins: New glycosylation method uncovers link
Our guts are home to trillions of bacteria, and research over the last few decades has established how essential they are to our physiology—in health and disease. A new study from EMBL Heidelberg ...
Inflammation-triggering cellular pathway identified as potential new drug target for Alzheimer's disease
A team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has unlocked the details of a cellular pathway that triggers ...
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Maturation and detoxification of synphilin-1 inclusion bodies regulated by sphingolipids
Due to proteostasis stress induced by aging or disease, misfolded proteins can form toxic intermediate species of aggregates and eventually mature into less toxic inclusion bodies (IBs). Here, using a ...