Researchers at Tulane University, with a team of colleagues from eight other universities, have discovered a new nerve cell ...

Degenerative joint diseases like osteoarthritis and intervertebral disk degeneration are conditions that affect millions of ...

Growth factor-stimulated phospholipase D (PLD) catalyzes the hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine (PC), generating phosphatidic acid (PA) which may act as a second messenger during cell proliferation and ...

REGULATED ACTIVITY: Vanderbilt’s John Exton describes the enzyme phospholipase D’s involvement in the signaling pathway of RhoA. K.C. Malcolm, A.H. Ross, R-G. Qui, M. Symons, J.H. Exton, "Activation ...

A breakthrough in understanding how a single-cell parasite makes ergosterol (its version of cholesterol) could lead to more ...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital molecular biologists have identified an enzyme that activates and "supercharges" cellular machinery that controls how cells become specialized cells in the body.

All cells have surface membranes and maintaining the surface area of this membrane is critical to the normal functioning of cells. The surface membranes of cells lining our lungs, guts and the ...