Tag: eukaryotes
In search of beauty
The emergence of eukaryotes (any organism with cells that have a clearly defined nucleus) probably corresponded to the most extraordinary event in the entire history of life, as at least two radically disparate creatures merged, giving rise to a chimera much more complex than any previously living being. For billions of years, two groups of similar creatures, bacteria and archaea, […]
Connectase: An enzyme that fuses proteins in a specific manner
Dr Adrian Fuchs, post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, and his team of researchers have discovered an enzyme that can fuse two proteins at specific recognition sites. This reaction enables the engineering of proteins with new characteristics, for example by labeling them with a detectable marker or by manipulating their interaction behaviour. Such applications are useful […]
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