Notre Dame Research Could Uncover Infection Mechanism
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA University of Notre Dame researcher has been awarded a $1.1 million W.M. Keck Foundation grant designed to investigate the spread of deadly bacterial infections. The funding will support efforts to replicate in test tubes protein folding within cells, a complex process they hope to understand and find ways to stop.
Professor of Biochemistry Patricia Clark and colleagues including Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor Masaru Kuno will work with other proteins and solid-state technology in an effort to study cellular folding mechanisms "in unprecedented detail." Clark says "this high level of innovation is necessary to break through the technical barriers that constrain our current understanding of protein folding."
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