Enzyme prisons

(Max Delbr ü ck Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association) A team at the MDC has answered a question that has puzzled scientists for some 40 years. In the journal Cell, the group explains how cells are able to switch on completely different signaling pathways using only one signaling molecule: the nucleotide cAMP. To achieve this, the molecule is virtually imprisoned in nanometer-sized spaces.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - Category: Biology Source Type: news