In a recent study published in Nature it was discovered that the polyamine spermine acts as a chelator of intracellular iron and thus as a suppressor of ferroptosis. Spermine is a polyamine metabolite that is essential for cellular homeostasis, with known roles ranging from DNA stabilization and RNA processing to protein synthesis and ion channel regulation. Dysregulation of spermine metabolism is implicated in various malignant, neurodegenerative and inflammatory diseases...Read more

In an article in PNAS HPA related researchers have used a combinatorial protein library to select binders against the overexpressed cancer receptor EGFR. The design of the scaffold protein allows for selection of both calcium -and pH dependency, an approach that can generate fine-tuned binders and possibly enable new treatment regimes...Read more