research advances

• • Formate transporter or channel?

    The mystery of how formate crosses the membrane is now solved.

  • NMR has its wiki way

    A wiki containing all the procedures and experimental set-ups used by the Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium is ideal for training new spectrometrists.

• • Safer Alzheimer's drugs?

    Inhibitors that only partially block phosphodiesterase activity look likely to reduce the nasty side effects of full inhibitors.
    
    

  • Spot protein-protein interactions… fast

    Nanowire transistors act as high-throughput biosensors for detecting protein interactions.

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• featured molecule

  • Antibiotics and ribosome function

    A series of new structures reveals the atomic basis of antibiotics that attack bacterial ribosomes. The drugs wedge themselves in key loops of ribosomal RNA, inhibiting the motions needed for decoding and recycling.

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• news

  • SG in the spotlight
  • The future of European research
  • Project set to map marks on genome
  • Obama budget backs basic science
  • Chemistry: Breaking the billion-hertz barrier

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• research library

  • Influence of lever structure on myosin 5a walking
  • Nuclear Import Mechanism of the EJC Component Mago-Y14 Revealed by Structural Studies of Importin 13

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• events

  • Structural glycobiology and human health March 29, 2010 - March 31, 2010
    London, UK
  • 2010 PSI Workshop: Enabling Technologies in Structure and Function April 19, 2010 - April 21, 2010
    Bethesda (Maryland), USA

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