Parasitic wasps switch off the immune systems of fruit flies by draining calcium from the flies' blood cells, a finding that offers new insight into how pathogens break through a host's defenses.
New research from Aarhus University with international collaborations has revealed that natural aSN activates an important calcium pump in the cell membrane. The protein alpha-synuclein (aSN) has long ...
High-speed pumps: Cells use high-speed pumps to pump calcium ions out of their interior. A team has created the first comprehensive transport model of plasma membrane CaATPase (PMCA) to study calcium ...