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Following Proteins on Their Journey

"This new technique represents a breakthrough in studying individual proteins in cells"

13-Mar-2024 - A research team led by biochemist Professor Helge Ewers from Freie Universität Berlin has developed a new technique for the light-mediated release and investigation of proteins in live cells. The technique makes use of a laser pulse to control the release of tagged protein molecules within a ...

Time-resolved crystallography for the masses

“The Spitrobot will greatly accelerate research in enzymatic mechanisms"

08-May-2023 - Scientists from four research institutes in the Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld have joined forces to develop a ground-breaking experimental setup. Their new Spitrobot greatly simplifies observing changes in proteins as they carry out their functions. This makes time-resolved crystallography ...

Structure of wheat immune protein resolved

Important tool in the battle for food security

29-Sep-2022 - Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and the University of Cologne in Germany together with colleagues from China have unravelled how wheat protects itself from a deadly pathogen. Their findings, published in the journal Nature, could be harnessed to make important ...

Magnetic resonance makes the invisible visible

Hyperpolarised water boosts signal intensities of proteins, DNA, and membranes

20-May-2022 - A small group of researchers including Dennis Kurzbach from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Vienna just published in "Nature Protocols" an advanced NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) method to monitor fast and complicated biomolecular events such as protein folding. For example, ...

Analyze proteins and protein interactions with hitherto unseen performance

Life-science startup Actome announces release of first commercial products

09-May-2022 - Actome has released the first commercial products to the EU market based on the Protein Interaction Coupling (PICO) Technology. The PICO assay kits for measuring proteins and protein interactions are available throughActome's online webshop. Actome GmbH is a life-science startup form Freiburg ...

Clever combination of quantum physics and molecular biology

Artificial intelligence affords unprecedented insights into how biomolecules work

08-Nov-2021 - A new analytical technique is able to provide hitherto unattainable insights into the extremely rapid dynamics of biomolecules. The team of developers, led by Abbas Ourmazd from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Robin Santra from DESY, is presenting its clever combination of quantum ...

Machine learning assisted structure analysis reveals SARS-CoV-2 virus tactics

The proteins of Covid-19

17-Sep-2021 - The proteins of SARS-CoV-2 play key roles in how the virus manages to evade immune defense and replicate itself in patients’ cells. An international research team – with significant contribution from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) – has now compiled the most detailed view of the virus' ...

Study of hundreds of proteins in parallel

First highly scalable method developed to monitor protein levels and localizations in cells

20-Nov-2020 - CeMM researchers have developed a highly scalable method which allows for the study of hundreds of proteins in parallel in order to monitor the changes of their levels and localization in the cell. This novel strategy is a notable contribution, not only to drug development for future treatments ...

Tracking titin in real time

17-Dec-2019 - Using new high-resolution imaging techniques, MDC researchers and colleagues have tracked titin, the body’s largest protein, in real time throughout its entire lifecycle. The method and results could provide new insight into muscle development as well as treating damaged muscles and heart ...

First molecular movies at European XFEL

Researchers follow dynamics of light-sensitive protein with European X-ray laser

26-Nov-2019 - An international team of researchers has made the first film of the dynamics of a biomolecule at the European X-ray laser European XFEL. In a paper published in Nature Methods, scientists show how to effectively use the high X-ray pulse repetition rate of the European X-ray laser European XFEL to ...