Inside every human cell, proteins are constantly being tagged with small chemical modifications after they're produced. Known ...
Objectives Smoking is recognised as one of the strongest environmental risk factors for the development of rheumatoid ...
A molecular model showing three of the main epigenetic modifications of DNA (orange) and histones (dark blue) [JUAN GAERTNER/Science Photo Library/Getty Images] Post-translational modifications (PTMs) ...
Lactylation, a recently identified post-translational modification, has emerged as important for immune regulation, tissue repair, cancer cell metabolism, and now, potentially, Alzheimer’s disease. In ...
As the “Method of the Year 2024”, spatial proteomics (SP) enables in situ characterization of protein localization, abundance, and interactions across subcellular to tissue scales, surpassing ...
One of the first things that students learn when they enter a biology class is the central dogma: DNA → messenger RNA → proteins. Only about 3% of the human genome directly codes for proteins, which ...
There is no known cure for Huntington's disease. A genetic mutation creates harmful proteins that accumulate and cause the disease's typical symptoms. A team from the Department of Human Genetics at ...
The field of neurodegenerative disease research has increasingly focused on the roles of RNA-binding proteins in the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral ...