Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have solved a long ...

Amino acids play a fundamental role in regulating how cells respond to drugs. These molecules, which form proteins, act like ...

Oocytes are long-lived cells that require specialized adaptations to maintain their fitness. This study shows that human ...

Human eggs are some of the most patient cells in the body, lying dormant for decades until needed. A study published in The EMBO Journal shows that the cells deliberately slow the activity of their ...

Exocytosis, the fusion of secretory vesicles with the plasma membrane to allow release of the contents of the vesicles into the extracellular environment, and endocytosis, the internalization of ...

A further understanding of the organelle could pave the way for better treatment of genetic and neurodegenerative diseases.

In eukaryotes, the actin family is involved in many membrane-dependent processes such as exocytosis, endocytosis, phagocytosis, cell motility (for example, using lamellipodia), cytokinesis and ...

In a twist, researchers at the University of Virginia and the National Institutes of Health uncovered a new organelle, dubbed ...

Endocytosis Through an essential process termed endocytosis, cells internalize regions of the PM and apoplast into small endocytic vesicles, to remove PM-localized proteins, lipids, and nutrients from ...

In particular, lipid modification plays a crucial role in the spatial regulation of proteins functioning on a lipid membrane surface. While cell-free protein synthesis allows rapid protein production, ...

Membrane receptors, particularly G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), are integral to numerous physiological processes. Precise control of the receptor endocytosis is essential for understanding ...