Uploaded May 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
ATP is the energy source for living cells, but in this video abstract, Avinash Patel & Liliana Malinovska describe a new role for this important molecule as a biological hydrotrope that can keep proteins from sticking together.
Read the full paper in the journal Science! "ATP as a biological hydrotrope" science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6339/753
Avinash is a postdoc in the lab of Tony Hyman and Liliana was a postdoc in the lab of Simon Alberti, both at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany (mpi-cbg.de).
Read the blog post with additional resources on sciencesketches.org: sciencesketches.org/single-post/2017/05/19/A-new-role-for-ATP
Video created by Liliana Malinovska, Lisa Dennison, and Avinash Patel.
ATP is the energy source for living cells, but in this video abstract, Avinash Patel & Liliana Malinovska describe a new role for this important molecule as a biological hydrotrope that can keep proteins from sticking together.
Read the full paper in the journal Science! "ATP as a biological hydrotrope" science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6339/753
Avinash is a postdoc in the lab of Tony Hyman and Liliana was a postdoc in the lab of Simon Alberti, both at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany (mpi-cbg.de).
Read the blog post with additional resources on sciencesketches.org: sciencesketches.org/single-post/2017/05/19/A-new-role-for-ATP
Video created by Liliana Malinovska, Lisa Dennison, and Avinash Patel.
