A recent study by Chinese scientists has revealed the intricate molecular machinery driving energy exchange within chloroplasts, shedding light on a key event in the evolution of plant life. Led by ...

Institute for Glyco-core Research (iGCORE), Tokai National Higher Education and Research System ・生命が生きていくために必要なADPやATPを含む生体 ...

We constructed a fluorescent sensor of adenylate nucleotides by combining a circularly permuted variant of GFP with a bacterial regulatory protein, GlnK1, from Methanococcus jannaschii. The sensor's ...

Hsp90 plays a central role in cell homeostasis by assisting folding and maturation of a large variety of clients. It is a homo-dimer, which functions via hydrolysis of ATP-coupled to conformational ...

ATP is the main source of energy for most cellular processes. The building blocks of ATP are carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus. Because of the presence of unstable, high-energy bonds ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 111, No. 12 (March 25, 2014), pp. 4455-4460 (6 pages) The cyanobacterial circadian oscillator can be reconstituted ...