A plasma membrane is permeable to specific molecules that a cell needs. Transport proteins in the cell membrane allow for selective passage of specific molecules from the external environment.

Membrane proteins have been found to contain hidden pathways that can be exploited to alter cell behavior, potentially leading to the development of new or improved drugs.

Nuclera, the biotechnology company accelerating protein expression and optimization through its benchtop eProtein Discovery™ system, today announced the addition of a new membrane protein workflow to ...

Their work, published in Nature Communications, reveals a mechanism of interdependence of different forms of the cytoskeletal proteins ... the apical membrane—the top of the cell—less stiff ...

Exosomes are 40-180 nm extracellular vesicles released by almost all cells under normal and pathological conditions. They are formed from membrane ... of key exosome marker proteins using Western ...

Exosomes express specific markers of the endosomal pathway, such as tetraspanins (CD63, CD9, and CD81), heat shock proteins ... the plasma membrane, thus indicating cellular origin. In fact, exosomes ...