Thursday, March 16, 2017

Cellular 'garbage disposal' has another job

03/16/2017 10:21 AM EDT

Human head jigsaw puzzle

A subset of protein complexes whose role has long been thought to consist only of chemically degrading and discarding of proteins no longer needed by cells appears to also play a role in sending messages from one nerve cell to another, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report.


Full story at http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/cellular_garbage_disposal_has_another_job?preview=true

Source
Johns Hopkins Medicine


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