The protein that helps the sperm and egg fuse together in sexual reproduction can also fuse regular cells together. Recent findings by a team of biomedical researchers from the Technion-Israel ...

Exocyst’s role in exocytosis. Credit: Seung-Hak Lee, medical student, School of Biological Sciences and Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea A ...

Located at the cellular interface, membrane proteins play critical regulatory roles in the signaling between a cell and its interacting environment, making them popular and ideal drug targets.

U.S. scientists have discovered a hidden molecular “switch” that herpes viruses rely on to invade cells. By combining AI, ...

Professor Ueda added, "We were able to show that the plant-unique membrane fusion protein VAMP727 co-evolved with a recycling mechanism from the vacuole. This suggests that the evolution of vacuolar ...

The membrane that encases a biological cell is not simply a barrier; it is chock full of proteins involved in all sorts of critical biological functions. To really understand what membrane proteins ...

A research team has revealed the molecular steps that led to the emergence of this plant-specific vacuolar transport system. Their work shows that the acquisition of this pathway was driven by the ...

Membrane fusion and budding mediate fundamental biological processes like intracellular trafficking, exocytosis, and endocytosis. For many decades, fusion has been thought to open a nanometer-range ...

A promising new COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by researchers at the Centenary Institute and the University of Sydney has shown strong potential to protect against both current and emerging ...

These modifications enabled the establishment of a vacuolar transport route unique to seed plants. Plants contain two major types of VAMP7 proteins: VAMP71, which functions in vacuolar membrane fusion ...