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Professor of Microbiology William Metcalf is lead author on a new study of ocean methane in Science. Up to 4 percent of the methane on Earth comes from the ocean’s oxygen-rich waters, but scientists have been unable to identify the source of this potent greenhouse gas. Now researchers report that...

Associate Professor of Biochemistry Raven Huang and colleagues have published "Molecular basis of bacterial protein Hen1 activating the ligase activity of bacterial protein Pnkp for RNA repair" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Tongfei Wang, Gubbi Govindaiah, Liana Artinian, and Charles Cox of the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology are co-authors of a new paper in Sciencexpress. Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Cell and Developmental Biology Martha Gillette is corresponding author.

Cong Wu, a graduate student in the Department of Biochemistry, is the first author on "A protease for 'middle-down' proteomics" in Nature Methods.

Professor of Biochemistry James H. Morrissey has been appointed as the Roy and Eva Hong Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Medical Biochemistry at the College of Medicine Lin-Feng Chen is corresponding author on a new study on RUNX3, a tumor suppressor in breast cancer.

Emad Tajkhorshid is corresponding author on "Accelerating Membrane Insertion of Peripheral Proteins with a Novel Membrane Mimetic Model," selected as the feature cover article in the May 2 issue of Biophysical Journal.

Yejing Ge, a graduate student in Jie Chen Lab, is the recipient of the 2012 Procter & Gamble Graduate Student Research Award.

Tyler Moran, Ph.D., who completed his thesis in the lab of Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Lori Raetzman, was selected as the 2011 recipient of the Molecular Endocrinology Student Author Award.

  The eukaryotic molecular chaperone network is formed by the concerted actions of Hsp90, Hsp70 and their associated cochaperones. Typically, cochaperones had been considered regulatory factors that modulate the ATPase activities of Hsp90 and Hsp70 and also guide these chaperone to distinct...