The SPOT model uses AI to predict the substrates that specific transport proteins can carry. SPOT offers a promising approach for enhancing substrate identification, which could benefit biotechnology ...

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have discovered that a protein which mediates the transport of alkali metal ions, such as potassium, and halide ions across plant membranes acts similarly ...

Citrate is essential for the metabolism and development of neurons. A membrane transport protein called SLC13A5 plays a ...

How do cargo proteins move between the Golgi cisternae? Scientists have proposed two possible explanations: the vesicular transport model and cisternal maturation model.

Similarly, all human cells require large protein coat complexes, working at transport hubs called endosomes, to coordinate the transport of fatty lipid and protein molecules required for human ...

Now a Korean-Swiss research team under the co-leadership of plant physiologists at the University of Zurich identified a protein that regulates calcium transport in the plant root and up to the shoot.

Many neurodegenerative diseases spread by hijacking the brain's connective circuitry to transport toxic proteins, which gradually accumulate and trigger symptoms of dementias. Now, researchers at ...

Something very similar can happen during active protein transport in cells when molecular motors with different modes of locomotion share the same multilane highway (i.e. protein filament).

According to a new theoretical model, in cell protrusions and cargo-transporting motor proteins often get in each other's way. The upshot is that freely diffusing proteins reach the leading edge ...

Motor proteins in cells can move along protein filaments in ways that interfere with each other's progress. A new model shows how this can lead to gridlock, even when there is still plenty of ...

Insights into the function of amino acid transporters could help scientists identify treatments for diseases such as cancer or Alzheimer's disease.