Considering their ubiquity, it seems safe to predict that ion channel mutations will be found to be involved in many diseases. The evolution of the lipid cell membrane solved one problem and ...

Ion channel proteins are found on all cell types and allow the passage of ... ther-mophila, which is geared toward membrane protein expression, and its post-translational machinery, which supports ...

Electron microscopy images reveal crucial structures and mechanisms within the molecular machinery that certain bacteria use ...

When speaking of motors, most people think of those powering vehicles and human machinery. However, biological motors have ...

This work presents a membrane-targeted azobenzene (MT) as light-responsive tool for cell stimulation. MT photoisomerization ...

Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers uncovered how sodium ions drive bacterial flagellar motors, revealing key ...

In the generic PEM fuel cell pictured at left, the membrane lies sandwiched between ... Ionization breaks the hydrogen atom down into its positive ions (hydrogen protons) and negative ions ...

Lipid bilayer forms a water-impermeable barrier that defines the boundary of a cell and of specialized compartments within a ... Zhou’s lab focuses on two families of proteins, membrane transport ...

Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and researchers from University of Tokyo, Nagoya ...