As summer kicks into full gear and people are spending more time outside, there's one thing on many people's minds—ticks.

The molecular structure of the MmpL4 efflux pump in Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals a coiled-coil domain essential for exporting the siderophore mycobactin and for bedaquiline resistance.

Centromeres, specialized regions located at the center of chromosomes, are critical for ensuring proper cell division. During mitosis, centromeres serve as assembly sites for complex protein ...

S. Matsuda, H. Kosako, K. Takenaka, K. Moriyama, H. Sakai, T. Akiyama, Y. Gotoh, E. Nishida, "Xenopus MAP kinase activator: identification and function as a key intermediate in the phosphorylation ...

Structure of world's largest single cell is reflected at the molecular level. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 01 / 150129160728.htm ...

In a study published in Cell Research, a research team has, for the first time, resolved the high-resolution in situ structure of the central apparatus (CA) within the axoneme of mammalian sperm.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis talked up AlphaFold 3 during Google I/O. This AI model uses generative AI capabilities to model how molecules of DNA, RNA, and proteins would look with a prompt ...

A new discovery about the slime ejected by velvet worms could revolutionize sustainable material design. The findings outline how a naturally occurring protein structure, conserved across species ...

The structure showed 12 transmembrane helices in two pseudo-symmetric bundles and two periplasmic subdomains. Experiments showed that the coiled-coil domain, whose predicted model extends from one of ...

DeepMind says its AlphaFold tool has successfully predicted the structure of nearly all proteins known to science. The AI lab is offering its database of over 200 million proteins to anyone for free.