Breakthrough: With a chaperone, copper breaks through
Monday, October 18, 2010 - 11:32
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Information on proteins is critical for understanding how cells function in health and disease. But while regular proteins are easy to extract and study, it is far more difficult to gather information about membrane proteins, which are responsible for exchanging elements essential to our health, like copper, between a cell and its surrounding tissues.