These include some obvious mechanical activities such as endocytosis, cell motility and membrane resealing, but also others, such as replication and transcription. Taking the motor proteins as an ...

The fatty membrane surrounding every living cell is a vibrant environment where countless biological processes take place.

A fascinating problem in modern cell biology — how membranes fuse — may be close to a solution. A flurry of recent papers report structural results on proteins that are essential for membrane ...

This takes place when molecules diffuse across the cell membrane by travelling through specific transport proteins. It occurs down a concentration gradient - molecules move from an area of high to ...

The net movement of water from a region of high water concentration to a region of low water concentration through a selectively permeable membrane. This means osmosis is a special case of ...

Munson is a co-corresponding author on the study published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ... tether secretory vesicles to the cell membrane, prior to exocytosis. In this study, we ...