Inside the cage

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The molecular chaperones, a type of synthesized bacterial protein combat the universal problem of aggregation of partly folded identical chains of amino acids by encapsulating each partly folded chain inside their caged structure. Scientists have discovered that the optimization of the internal properties of the Chaperonin cage can result in the acceleration of protein-folding inside the cage, which could be used to effect by nanoengineers trying to improve the yield of therapeutic proteins.

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Light on pits

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A study on the coated pits that form on the surface of cells and which take up material from the surface and the extracellular environment is presented. The study concluded that relatively large cargo molecules, such as reovirus, take longer than smaller cargoes to become included in a fully formed coated pit, hinting that type of cargo might help to determine pit size.

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Join the crowd

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Cells are filled with large molecules. The branching of this crowding for a wide range of intracellular processes are becoming generally understood.

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