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Structure of Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier Drug Target Bound to Inhibitors Revealed
The researchers identified the structure of this machine, the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC), and 50 years since its discovery, have shown how it operates like the lock on a canal to transport ...
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Mitochondrial pyruvate carrier structure solved after fifty years
Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria, the ...
Unlocking Vision’s Secrets: Researchers Reveal 3D Structure of Key Eye Protein
Researchers have uncovered the 3D structure of RBP3, a key protein in vision, revealing how it transports retinoids and fatty ...
Throwing a 'spanner in the works' of our cells' machinery could help fight cancer, fatty liver disease... and hair loss
Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria allows us ...
Regulators of DNA folding could be targets for treating cancer
Most cells in the human body each contain about six feet of DNA. Yet the nucleus, where DNA is coiled, is no larger than a ...
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Polish researchers described a new mechanism that improves the efficiency of mRNA-based therapies (IMAGE)
Polish researchers described a new mechanism that improves the efficiency of mRNA-based therapies. From left: Prof. Andrzej Dziembowski (IIMCB and Faculty of Biology UW), Dr. Paweł S. Krawczyk (IIMCB) ...