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Cells rely on the synthesis, translocation, folding and turnover of proteins. Owing to complexity, spatiotemporal regulation and surveillance of these processes are vital. Advances in the field were discussed at the international symposium ‘Proteins: From the Cradle to the Grave’ that took place in the wonderful setting of a Buddhist temple located close to Kyoto, Japan. The emerging theme was the interdependence among cellular processes and organelle compartments.
A symposium in June 2018 sponsored by the Center on Membrane Protein Production and Analysis, a unit of the New York Structural Biology Center, focused on the structures of proteins residing in biological membranes. Explicit emphasis was placed on currently developing technologies aimed at determining such structures and at understanding their dynamics, mechanisms and complex interactions.
