Transcription factor doubling as a structural protein identified in world’s first.

Structural proteins perform much like their name suggests, they maintain cell shape and make up connective tissues like cartilage and bone.  Telling a cell biologist that a structural protein is doubling as a transcription factor will not be believed as it’s never been seen before.  Now, researchers at Washington State University, Penn State, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University and the University of … Continue reading Transcription factor doubling as a structural protein identified in world’s first.