Taste, pain, or response to stress—nearly all essential functions in the human body are regulated by molecular switches ...

Sterols, such as cholesterol in our bodies or ergosterol in yeast cells, are among the most abundant lipids in eukaryotic ...

Viruses are natural delivery systems for nucleic acids, but they have several significant drawbacks: They aren’t targeted to any one cell type, for instance, and they can’t be re-dosed—the ...

Here we report that the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-resident SNARE Sec22b has a conserved non-fusogenic function in plasma membrane expansion ... or transfected COS7 cells were homogenized in ...

a Laboratory of Paediatric Molecular Biology, Department of General Paediatrics, Charité University Hospital, Humboldt University, D-10098 Berlin, Germany, b Department of Pediatrics and Munroe Center ...