An article in the June issue (Nat. Biotechnol. 22, 773–774, 2004) highlights the challenge of producing a shared vocabulary that biologists can use to communicate their results effectively ...

While many of them are structurally simple, there are approximately 7,000 proteins that must be made in a cell's secretory pathway and will be either dispersed throughout the cell or secreted to ...

10-amino-acid sequence called the "passport sequence," which facilitates the efficient trafficking of glycoproteins through the secretory pathway. When attached to target proteins, this sequence ...