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Peroxisomes do it, too
There is hardly any cellular organelle not involved in calcium handling. Mitochondria do it, the Endoplasmic reticulum does it,...
Dysferlin in the heart
Dysferlinopathies are muscular dystrophies affecting mainly the skeletal muscle. Cardiomyopathies are not regarded to be prominent...
Ferlin functions fully featured
Ferlins are a fascinating class of proteins: multi-C2-domain proteins, tail-anchored proteins, and, when affected by mutation,...
Peroxisomes are not alone
Yelena and Sven published a review article that highlights the new and exciting field of peroxisome-organelle interactions with a...
Super, resolution
One of the difficulties with peroxisomes is that they are really, really small. And now we know they are even smaller. 100 nm diameter....
Dysferlin: going molecular
Wow, this has been a true publication odyssey: Julia's PhD project is finally accepted! Congrats to Julia and many collaborators for...
PEX35 and counting
Peroxisomes is all about PEXes! So who would have thought that one day we would ourselves being involved in finding a new PEX? There you...
But how does readthrough reinterpret the genetic code?
Functional translational readthough involves recoding, that is the genetic code is interpreted other than normal. Understandably, in...
Bioinformatics on three letters
The peroxisome targeting signal PTS1 is not just three letters! PTS1 is much more than SKL. Mathematically speaking, SKL (Ser-Lys-Leu) is...