In a new study, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have shed new light on these complex processes, showing that
a particular protein plays a far more sophisticated role in neuron development than previously thought.
Tuncay Baubec, professor at the Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease at the University of Zurich, and his team have shown that one
particular protein plays an important part in this process: The DNA methyltransferase 3A (DNMT3A) enzyme is responsible for positioning the methylation to the right place on the DNA.
Adding a spoonful of sugar to coffee makes it sweeter, but in plants, researchers have discovered, the addition of sugar molecules to
particular proteins plays a surprising variety of roles in basic developmental processes.
Not exact matches
As a grad student, I once spent 2 months demonstrating that three
particular amino acids on a
protein in the arabinose operon (the group of genes that allows bacteria to metabolize a certain sugar) do not
play a role in causing that
protein to bind to other copies of itself.
The research team found that a key downstream effect of depleting the
protein was that
particular cells failed to migrate to the heart, where they would usually have
played key roles in developing heart structures.
In
particular, they are interested in the tendency of ADAR to form large multipart
protein complexes, and in the exact role these complexes
play in the biology of the cell.
Egr
proteins play a role in the regulation of synaptic plasticity, learning and memory [76, 77] and Egr3 in
particular is very important for the processing of both short term and long term hippocampal dependent memory [78].
Your
protein intake, in
particular,
plays an important role in fueling your muscles.