Hot species for cool structures: Complex proteins in 3-D thanks to simple heat-loving fungus
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
A fungus that lives at extremely high temperatures could help understand structures within our own cells. Scientists in Europe were the first to sequence and analyze the genome of a heat-loving fungus, and used that information to determine the long sought 3-D structure of the inner ring of the nuclear pore.