A hot species for cool structures: Complex proteins in 3-D thanks to simple heat-loving fungus
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 15:00
in Biology & Nature
A fungus that lives at extremely high temperatures could help understand structures within our own cells. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and Heidelberg University, both in Heidelberg, Germany, were the first to sequence and analyse the genome of a heat-loving fungus, and used that information to determine the long sought 3-dimensional structure of the inner ring of the nuclear pore. The study was published today in Cell.