How do enzymes cause tremendous increases in reaction rates? Learn how a group of enzymes called the serine proteases work.

Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have found a novel mechanism of our immune system we never ... chunks by producing chemical reactions that break down peptide bonds. This ...

The phosphotyrosine-binding (PTB) domain of Numb, a protein involved in asymmetric cell division, has recently been shown to bind to the adapter protein Lnx through an LDNPAY sequence, to the Numb ...

HHMI scientists and their colleagues discover a new mechanism of protein synthesis ... A central tenet of biology has long held that each amino acid added to a peptide chain is specified by an RNA ...

elegans (Link, 1995). Despite many years of study, the mechanism(s) and disease relevance of Abeta toxicity remains unresolved. Our current studies center around our characterization of a variant ...