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5·7 hours agoI mean
Dandelions are a gift!
It’s a cell biology joke about the ubiquitin system.
https://www.nature.com/articles/458421a
Others can correct me if I’m wrong (pls do this isnt my area), but in normal cell biology, you usually tag the misfolded or regulated proteins for destruction. Here, the meme brags that they’ve been tagging properly folded proteins instead.
From the link:
The destruction of proteins is as important as their synthesis for the maintenance of protein homeostasis in cells. In eukaryotes, the ubiquitin–proteasome system is responsible for most of this protein degradation: the small protein ubiquitin acts as a death warrant, tagging and targeting other proteins to the large proteolytic chamber of the proteasome.
The discovery in the 1970s that certain proteins are ubiquitylated before degradation was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. It is now known that ubiquitin-mediated destruction plays a crucial part in cell-cycle regulation, DNA repair, cell growth and immune function, as well as in hormone-mediated signalling in plants. More recently, ubiquitin has been shown to have numerous non-proteolytic functions, including involvement in vesicular trafficking pathways, regulation of histone modification and viral budding.
Given the central role of the ubiquitin system in diverse cellular processes, it is not surprising that its dysfunction contributes to cancer and to neurodegenerative and immunological disorders. An understanding of the ubiquitin system is therefore important in devising treatments for such diseases.
3·2 days agoDisaster capitalism, bby.
Donate to mutual aid networks. They will need them in the days ahead as the services stop.
They destroy the past to sell you a future. It’s coercion and extortionate.
Pedabytes, but you can help in other ways. Donating, uploading and the Archive Warrior. There may be waits to support via torrents too but I do not know.
Owls really are basically cats.
Ps, pls put a NSFW on it haha. I don’t mind but others will.
I think we’re going to need a few more examples to really make sure.
That’s a Tumblr post.
Something something Manifest Destiny
This movie is amazing and everyone should watch it.