Bacterial radioresistance: Zinc, a precious metal!
After having characterized in 2014 and in 2019 the pair of proteins offering Deinococcus bacteria an extreme resistance to radiation, BIAM researchers have just discovered that the molecular signal serving as a switch to this resistance process is a metal, Zinc! This mechanism would also contribute to the virulence of certain pathogens. A discovery that […]
Functioning of a key photoenzyme decrypted
The functioning of the FAP enzyme, useful for producing biofuels and green chemistry, has been deciphered. This result mobilized an international team of scientists, including many French researchers from CEA, CNRS, Inserm, École Polytechnique, the universities of Grenoble Alpes, Paris-Saclay and Aix-Marseille, as well as the European Synchrotron and the Synchrotron SOLEIL. This discovery is […]