A subunit vaccine makes use of just a small portion of a pathogen. For a virus, the vaccine can contain just a piece of the protein coat that surrounds the virus's DNA (or RNA). Even small portion ...

To pinpoint this new immunization strategy, scientists inhibited human cells from producing proteasomes in one group while ...

First, three initiation factor proteins (known as IF1, IF2, and IF3) bind to the small subunit of the ribosome. This preinitiation complex and a methionine-carrying tRNA then bind to the mRNA ...

Surprisingly, it does this in the absence of both messenger RNA and the ribosome’s small, message-reading subunit. The ribosome is a large molecular complex of RNA and protein. When eukaryotic ...

In unstimulated cells, the state of G alpha (orange circles) is defined by its interaction with GDP, G beta-gamma (purple circles), and a G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR; light green loops).

Indeed when the scientists swapped in the 2B subunit CTD of NMDA receptor in fragile X model mice they found correction of ...