Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how molecular "traffic controllers" in cells influence aging and cellular ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 113, No. 18 (May 3, 2016), pp. 4994-4999 (6 pages) During translation, a plethora of protein factors bind to the ...

Mitochondrial transcription elongation factor maintains the balance between transcription and replication of mitochondrial DNA offering insights into potential treatments for mitochondrial disease and ...

Elongation factor 4 (EF4) is one of the most conserved proteins present in bacteria as well as in mitochondria and chloroplasts of eukaryotes. Although EF4 has the unique ability to catalyze the ...