Northwestern University researchers have identified structural features in engineered cell receptors that correlate with ...

The impacts of highly pathogenic enveloped viruses, such as SARS-CoV-2, have turned scientific inquiry toward the fusion mechanisms responsible for viral pathogenesis and to seek cost-effective and ...

Missense mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and presenilin-1 (PSEN1) cause early-onset familial Alzheimer’s disease (FAD) and alter proteolytic production of secreted 38-to-43-residue ...

B. The number of membrane proteins and predicted glycosylated proteins in human genome from UniProt . C. The number of predicted glycosylation sites per the number of amino acid sequence of ectodomain ...

Shedding of the ectodomain (soluble extracellular part of the protein) of GPI-anchored proteins has been described as an important post-translational mechanism involved in adhesion and cell signaling ...