EPFL researchers have developed a computational method to explicitly consider the impact of water while designing membrane ...

Adhesion G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are a group of cell-surface sensors associated with many body functions and diseases. However, they are not yet sufficiently understood to be exploited for ...

Receptors and membrane biology are critical areas of study in understanding how cells communicate and interact with their environment. Receptors, particularly G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs ...

Proteins are life's engines, powering processes like muscle movement, vision, and chemical reactions. Their environments-water, lipid membranes, or other condensed phases-are critical to their ...

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich have for the first time investigated how protein structures derived from fava beans affect a ...

The same mechanisms involved in COVID-related cardiovascular events are responsible for COVID-related myocarditis.

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs ... which leads to their opening and subsequent hyperpolarization of the cell membrane. This process is modulated by various factors, including phosphorylation ...

His team then extracted the receptor from the cell membrane and forged an initial understanding of ... This family is now known as G-protein-coupled receptors, and the studies by Lefkowitz and Kobilka ...

Adhesion GPCRs are a group of cell-surface sensors associated with many body functions and diseases. However, they are not yet sufficiently understood to be exploited for therapies. Scientists have ...

Thomas Sollner (University of Munich): "The complex organization of eucaryotic cells into various membrane ... This is the first mitochondrial outer-membrane protein fulfilling the criteria proposed ...

Aligning therapies with the biologic clock may improve efficacy, as macrophage activity peaks early in the morning, worsening inflammatory disease symptoms.

Adhesion G protein-coupled receptors are a large class of membrane proteins that detect chemical and mechanical stimuli in the body. The GAIN domain ...