Sentences with phrase «proteins caught in the act»
«Swinging on «monkey bars»: Motor proteins caught in the act.»
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The new methods allowed them to catch proteins in the act of binding to RNA, and also identify what part of the protein was in contact with the nucleic acid.
They stimulated some of them in test tubes with the neurotransmitter glutamate and, with a technique called a Northern blot, caught the messenger RNA — the genetic template from which proteins are made — in the act of fabricating proteins.
Scientists from the Cees Dekker group at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University, together with the Christian Haering group from EMBL Heidelberg who established the purification and fluorescence labeling of the protein, managed to make actual movies that caught the action of the condensin complex in the act — that is, while it was extruding a loop of DNA.