Light Signal Triggers Protein Interactions Inside Cells
By Sharon Kingman
Staff Writer
Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
LONDON The prospect of being able to control the activity of drugs in body tissues by illuminating them has moved a step closer, with the discovery of a way of using light to activate peptides inside a cell. By experimenting with the process of endocytosis, through which cells engulf substances that are outside and bring them inside, a team of researchers in Spain have shown they could switch peptides from active to inactive with pulses of light.
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