The key to understanding Corona: The virus needs only a single door opener

Super-resolution microscopy made it clear

09-Jun-2023 - Why is the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus able to spread so efficiently? Various hypotheses are still circulating in the scientific community. A group of researchers from Würzburg has now found groundbreaking answers. In Europe, the pandemic triggered in 2020 by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is now largely ...

New method makes masked proteins in nerve cells visible

"This method opens new doors to the study of hard-to-label proteins in living neurons"

23-Nov-2021 - The research groups of Prof. Dr. Markus Sauer from the Biocenter and Dr. Gerti Beliu from the Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging at the University of Würzburg, as well as the group of Dr. Daniel Choquet from the Bordeaux Neurocampus department of Bordeaux ...

Soap molecules open channel proteins extracted from the bacterial membrane

27-Aug-2021 - Soap molecules reversibly open specific channel proteins in bacteria. These channels are also interesting from a medical point of view, as they are part of the defense mechanisms of bacteria. Bacteria use special channel proteins through which they can channel fluid and ions out of the cell in ...

Researchers identified an important signaling molecule of cell communication

30-Mar-2016 - International scientists led by Carsten Hoffmann and Martin Lohse of the University Würzburg, Germany, identified for the first timeβ-Arrestin as an independent signaling molecule. The protein modulates a pharmaceutically important pathway. It leads to new drug targets, for example in pain ...