Lasker
Americannoun
noun
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"Ever since we realized that disruptions in condensate formation are at the heart of many diseases, it has been challenging to target them therapeutically because they appeared to lack structure -- there were no specific features for a drug to latch onto," says Keren Lasker, associate professor at Scripps Research and senior author of the study.
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To explore how condensates can act like compartments without membranes, Lasker's lab examined a bacterial protein called PopZ.
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"Realizing that protein conformation depends on location gives us multiple ways to engineer cellular function," says Daniel Scholl, first author and former postdoctoral researcher in the Lasker and Deniz labs.
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"By demonstrating that condensate architecture is both definable and functionally critical, the work raises the possibility of designing therapies that act directly on condensate structure and correct the underlying disorganization that allows disease to take hold," says Lasker.
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Habener was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, received the Canada Gairdner International Award, the Breakthrough Prize and the Lasker Award, and has been nominated for a Nobel Prize.
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