Molecular spies illuminate drug resistance proteins
...ies, and then receive signals from these molecular spies and decode them to describe the local structure ar...ures except in functionally important details, the spies were able to reveal something the crystal structures couldn't the opening and closing of the transp......cademy of Sciences. "The proteins act as molecular spies that tell us what is happening within cells in the living mouse," said Michael Kotlikoff, professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine. Cornell researchers are breeding new lines of mice wi...