Mass spectrometry

turning weakness into strength

Turning Weakness into Strength for Protein Production Control

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Biochemistry, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

The new method may enable quality control without costly purification procedures

Drs. Elisabetta Boaretto and Tobias Richter. In the foreground is a Natufian hearth at Shubayqa, Jordan

Uncovering Varied Pathways to Agriculture

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Scientific Archaeology

New dates for a 15,000-year-old site in Jordan challenge some prevailing assumptions about the beginnings of permanent settlement

op: Mass spectrometry, along with other methods, reveals that the protein CSNAP is the ninth subunit of the COP9 signalosome (CSN) complex. Bottom: COP9 complex subunits compared with those of the 19S proteasome suggest that CSNAP is the corresponding subunit to the smallest proteasome protein, filling in the puzzle of the “missing piece

Molecular Machinery: Finding the Missing Ninth Piece

26.10.2015

The protein had evaded detection for decades; without it, cells may turn cancerous

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