LCLS offers new method for examining membrane proteins
Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 05:30
in Biology & Nature
Many membrane proteins serve as gateways in and out of the cell. Because they act as traffic control for infectious agents and disease-fighting drugs, they are the targets of more than 60 percent of all drugs on the market. Yet of the estimated 30,000 membrane proteins in the human body, scientists understand the detailed structures of only 18.