A new role for ATP

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" http://science.sciencemag.org/content...

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: http://www.sciencesketches.org/single...

Video created by Liliana Malinovska, Lisa Dennison, and Avinash Patel.