Seed plants, such as soybeans, store large amounts of protein in specialized organelles called protein storage vacuoles.

With a growing collection of amino-acid sequences, the idea of molecular information could therefore be explored with proteins in ways not applicable to nucleic acids. Even the most challenging ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists at Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory have acquired detailed ...

This fundamental study combines in vitro reconstitution experiments and molecular dynamics simulations to elucidate how membrane lipids are transported from the outer to the inner membrane of ...

The protein part of whey is called whey protein. It’s a complete, high quality protein that contains all of the essential amino acids. In addition, it’s very digestible and absorbed from your ...

Figure 1. Catabolic pathways of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) and downstream signaling initiated by catabolites (for explanation, see BCAA Catabolism section). 4E-BP1 indicates eukaryotic ...

Choline helps convert the amino acid homocysteine to methionine. Therefore, a deficiency of choline can result in an accumulation of homocysteine in your blood. Choline is required to produce ...

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. Grain size is an important agronomic trait and ...