These include some obvious mechanical activities such as endocytosis, cell motility and membrane resealing, but also others, such as replication and transcription. Taking the motor proteins as an ...

A research team has now used new in vitro and cell culture models to show that a lipid anchor on the outer membrane of nerve cells inhibits the aggregation of the prion protein. Researchers have ...

Exosomes play a central role in this transformation by transporting bioactive molecules such as proteins ... fuse with lysosomes for degradation or with the plasma membrane to release their ...