Science news articles about 'protein domain'

... applied genes encode multi-domain proteins. Domains are sequence fragments that encode the basic ... well in verifying the ancestral patterns of multi-domain gene evolution for these families, much better ...

... the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have determined the structure of a key protein domain in a bacterium that could help with bioremediation of uranium-contaminated land sites.

... part of the enzyme, as it is where MMPs break up or destroy other proteins. The catalytic domain was extensively targeted by pharmaceutical companies in efforts to block MMP function in cancer. The ...

... of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Wageningen University and Research Centre (UR) have identified the protein component responsible for regulating innate immunity in humans and animals. They furthermore ...

... publish a high-resolution image of a key protein domain whose function is to allow the virus ... messenger RNAs (mRNAs) to direct the cell's protein-synthesis machinery to the starting point. The viral ...

... two different forms of a prion-forming protein domain by means of NMR spectroscopy. In the journal ... highly flexible loops in addition to the rigid domains. These are absent from the non-infectious pH 3 ...

... that lives longer. An elusive enzyme Telomerase is a complex structure made up of multiple protein domains and a stretch of RNA, which contains the template the enzyme uses to synthesize telomeres. ...

... publish a high-resolution image of a crucial protein domain that allows the virus to hijack human ... cell machinery towards the synthesis of viral proteins. It does this by stealing a small tag, called ...

... now precisely defined an important drug target in influenza. A new high resolution image details a crucial protein domain that allows the virus to hijack human cells and multiply in ...

... two of a particular tag (in this case, acetyl groups) – and, contrary to expectations, uses just one protein domain to do so. "We were very surprised," explains Christoph Müller of EMBL. "We looked ...