Christian de Caestecker, a Ph.D. student in the lab of Ian Macara, Louise B. McGavock Professor and chair of the Department ...

Protein-sorting mechanisms ensure that membrane proteins are specifically recognized among thousands of different proteins -- and are sent to the membrane, where they're needed.

Marks studies protein sorting – determining how proteins are delivered to the correct organelle, or subcompartments, within the cell. He investigates this basic process in pigment cells, ...

Plant molecular farming (PMF) is a modern, sophisticated technology that utilizes plants' biosynthetic machinery to ...

Endosomal trafficking and protein sorting constitute fundamental processes that govern the intracellular localisation and recycling of membrane proteins in eukaryotic cells. Endosomes act as ...

Université de Genève. (2020, August 3). Cells relax their membrane to control protein sorting. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 08 ...

This solves a decade-old puzzle in protein sorting. Peer-Reviewed Publication. University of Konstanz. Based on genetic blueprints, individual ...

Like a sorting machine in an assembly line, a molecule known as VPS35 detects and removes defective proteins from neurons. And similar to other quality control processes, the VPS35 system goes a ...

Mitochondria are vital for the human body as cellular powerhouses: They possess more than 1,000 different proteins, required for many central metabolic pathways.

Sorting Nexin: A family of proteins that contain phosphoinositide-binding domains, crucial for recognising cargo sorting signals and directing endosomal trafficking.