An international research team has obtained for the first time the structure of the light-sensitive sodium-pumping KR2 protein in its active state. The discovery provides a description of the mechanism behind the light-driven sodium ion transfer across the cell membrane. Understanding how KR2 works is crucial for optimizing the functional characteristics of that protein and using it as the basis for new optogenetic tools.
Till 21st December 2020, small and medium companies can ask for funded beamtime in different European light sources thanks to EU CALIPSOplus project.
Researchers from Spain’s Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), University of Alcalá (UAH), the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) and the ALBA Synchrotron have demonstrated for the first time the presence of microplastic in a freshwater lake in the Arctic. So far, these kind of contaminants had only been registered in marine ecosystems of the arctic region.
The Digital Object Identifier, or DOI, is a persistent link, and specifically, it is an identifier allowing data to the traced from production to publication.
An international team of researchers have studied the mechanism by which surface acoustic waves (SAW) enhance catalytic activity. They were able for the first time to measure the effect of SAW on the electronic structure of a Pt model catalyst and achieved a remarkable precision with the new experimental setup at the CIRCE beamline in the ALBA Synchrotron.
