Making moves with cryo-EM: Princeton's Nieng Yan tackles protein structures (IMAGE)

Princeton University

Making moves with cryo-EM: Princeton's Nieng Yan tackles protein structures

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Recent work from Nieng Yan's lab at Princeton University explores how two proteins involved in Neimann-Pick disease Type C, NPC1 and NPC2, work together to deliver cholesterol (depicted by black ball-structures) across the membrane of late lysosomes/endosomes.

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Image courtesy Yan lab.

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