From that data, the team was able to explain changes in protein function. "In science, you try to build theories that will explain the properties of the systems you are looking at," explains Markley.

Help from the dark side: Using 'dark channel' fluorescence, scientists can explain how biochemical substances carry out their function Date: August 10, 2010 Source: Helmholtz Association of German ...

Freiburg biologists explain function of Pentagone Study shows how the protein controls the development of fruit fly wings Peer-Reviewed Publication BIOSS - Centre for Biological Signalling Studies ...

In the heart there are two different subtypes of beta-adrenergic receptors - beta1 and beta2 - which are activated by the stress hormones adrenaline and noradrenaline.

A core idea in molecular biology is that one gene codes for one protein. Now biologists have found an example of a gene that yields two forms of a protein – enabling it to evolve new functionality.

University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemists have developed an approach that allows them to measure with unprecedented accuracy the strengths of hydrogen bonds in a protein. The scientists were ...