News articles tagged with 'chaperone'
How the hat fits: Structural biology study reveals shape of epigenetic enzyme complex
— 21 Jan 2011 20:32 | BiologyTo understand the emerging science of epigenetics - a field that describes how genes may be regulated without altering the underlying DNA itself - scientists are deciphering the many…
Half of hospital trusts in England have no chaperon policy
— 19 Aug 2010 08:40 | HealthOnly around half of acute hospital trusts in England have a formal chaperone policy, despite the recommendations of a public inquiry, reveals research published online in Postgraduate…
Experiment turns up the heat on natural selection, reveals new details of an evolutionary mechanism
— 18 Jun 2010 12:56 | BiologyScientists in Munich report evidence that high concentrations of the molecular 'chaperone' proteins GroEL and GroES - intracellular machines that can stabilise folding proteins under…
Scientists shed light on potential treatment for Gaucher's disease
— 9 May 2010 18:23 | HealthIn findings that advance scientists' understanding of a whole class of inherited disorders, a team from The Scripps Research Institute has shed light on a mechanism that enables a potential…
A new strategy normalises blood sugars in diabetes
— 29 Mar 2010 07:00 | HealthResearchers at Children's Hospital Boston have identified a new strategy for treating type 2 diabetes, identifying a cellular pathway that fails when people become obese. By activating…
Green plant transport mystery solved
— 27 Jan 2010 12:29 | BiologyContrary to prevailing wisdom, a new study from plant biologists at UC Davis shows that proteins of the Hsp70 family do indeed chaperone proteins across the membranes of chloroplasts,…
Compounds that help protect nerve cells discovered by Duke team
— 20 Jan 2010 14:32 | HealthScientists at Duke University Medical Centre have found some compounds that improve a cell's ability to properly 'fold' proteins and could lead to promising drugs for degenerative nerve…
Molecular chaperone keeps bacterial proteins from slow-dancing to destruction
— 1 Jan 2010 12:12 | HealthJust like teenagers at a prom, proteins are tended by chaperones whose job it is to prevent unwanted interactions among immature clients. And at the molecular level, just as at the…
Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer drug
— 27 Nov 2009 08:09 | HealthThe copper sequestering drug tetrathiomolybdate (TM) has been shown in studies to be effective in the treatment of Wilson disease, a disease caused by an overload of copper, and certain…
Protein inhibitor helps rid brain of toxic tau protein
— 30 Sep 2009 16:35 | HealthInhibiting the protein Hsp70 rapidly reduces brain levels of tau, a protein associated with Alzheimer's disease when it builds up abnormally inside nerve cells affecting memory, neuroscientists…