West Virginia University neuroscientists have discovered a way to control how much zinc is released to specific locations in ...

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Four amino acids cup the zinc molecule (blue) like four hands in GluN2A vs. two amino acids, or two hands, bonding with it (grey) in GluN2B.

In the course of further investigations, the researchers were able to show that protein-bound zinc does in fact form a chemical bond with the PPI, which then leads to the activation of the PPI.

Synthetic cannabinoids, a class of new psychoactive substances, bind to cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2 much more strongly than tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), raising public ...

With our colleagues in the Skaar Lab at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Giedroc Lab at Indiana University, we recently identified the first known molecule that delivers zinc to ...