Researchers try multiple means to get high-quality membrane proteins for X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy studies. As much as 30% of human genes code for ...

A research team has now used new in vitro and cell culture models to show that a lipid anchor on the outer membrane of nerve cells inhibits the aggregation of the prion protein. Researchers have ...

It does that by talking to the membrane fusion protein." More information: Chanwoo Lee et al, Exocyst stimulates multiple steps of exocytic SNARE complex assembly and vesicle fusion, Nature ...