Quality assurance in the cell: Preventing defective protein blueprints
Two molecular control factors play a decisive role in what is known as splicing, the cutting and assembly of mature messenger ...
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Structural Insights Into the Cell's Quality Control Machinery
They succeeded once they were able to isolate the splicing complexes of the fungus that were in the midst of quality control ...
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Starting points for the control of protein synthesis
The research field of 'cellular IRESes' lay dormant for decades, as there was no uniform standard of reliable methods for the clear characterization of these starting points for the ribosome-mediated ...
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RNA origami technique folds nanotubes to create artificial cytoskeletons for synthetic cells
This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural RNA biomolecule to fold new building blocks, making protein synthesis ...
Zebrafish study reveals nanoplastics' impact on red blood cell maturation
Polystyrene nanoparticles are widely used in packaging, but their effects on organisms are unclear. Very little was known about how they affect blood cell development until now.