An international research team has uncovered a new mechanism crucial to the production of cellular proteins. When this mechanism is disrupted, the blueprints used by the cell to produce proteins are ...
An international research team has uncovered a new mechanism crucial to the production of cellular proteins. When this mechanism is disrupted, the blueprints used by the cell to produce proteins are ...
Splicing factors are involved in alternative splicing, a cellular process that allows cells to produce different proteins from the instructions encoded in a single gene. "Imagine that three cooks meet ...
A Purdue University research team has revealed complex new details about the function of a key protein shared by mammals, including humans. Many cancers result when this DNA methyltransferase protein ...
The student will investigate how protein arginine methylation, a type of post-translational modification commonly found in RNA-binding proteins, regulates the function of an evolutionarily conserved ...
Proteins are the building blocks of life. They consist of folded peptide chains, which in turn are made up of a series of amino acids. From stabilising cell structure to catalysing chemical reactions, ...
RNA splicing is a cellular process that is critical for gene expression. After genes are copied from DNA into messenger RNA, portions of the RNA that don't code for proteins, called introns, are cut ...
A $1.6million grant from the National Institute of Health (MD, USA) has been awarded to study the underlying biochemistry and crystallography of RNA splicing using bacteria from hot springs. Roughly ...
USP39 stabilizes the spliceosome (green), which cuts out unneeded parts (grey and purple) of the mRNA. If USP39 is missing, some of the mRNA is poorly processed. This results in misfolded proteins, ...