Heidelberg biochemists decipher the “escort service” for biological solar collectors For photosynthesis, the chloroplasts of all green plants contain biological solar collectors known as ...

Proteins control most of the body's functions, and their malfunction can have severe consequences, such as neurodegenerative diseases or cancer. Therefore, cells have mechanisms in place to control ...

New research suggests that when cancer cells are under stress, cellular chaperone protein GRP78 alters its behavior and migrates to the cell's nucleus, where it modifies gene activities and allows ...

Aging and cancer are deeply intertwined: advancing age is the single largest risk factor for most malignancies, and many of the molecular processes that ...

Progress and perspectives on the biology of heat shock proteins and molecular chaperones / R.I. Morimoto, A. Tissieres, C. Georgopoulos -- Cytosolic hsp70s of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: roles in ...