Little-known protein found to be key player

Italian and U.S. biologists this week report that a little-understood protein previously implicated in a rare genetic disorder plays an unexpected and critical role in building and maintaining healthy cells. Even more surprising, their report in the journal Nature shows that the protein, called 'atlastin,' does its work by fusing intracellular membranes in a previously undocumented way...

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