To survive drying, tardigrades rely on intrinsically disordered CAHS proteins, which also function to prevent perturbations ...

Tardigrades are one of the most resilient ... Thus they have been named intrinsically disordered proteins. One subgroup of these is secretory-abundant heat-soluble proteins. Researchers recently ...

These microreactors can also selectively recruit phosphorylated proteins, providing insights into the evolution of enzymatic activity. The properties of biomolecular condensates can be regulated ...

In the UW study, published in the journal Protein Science, the molecular biology team looked into a tardigrade protein known as CAHS D, which is key to the tiny animal's suspended animation process.

Second, DNA was being repaired much more quickly than normal, thanks to a tardigrade-specific protein called TRID1, and third, production increased of two other proteins, BCS1 and NDUFB8 (which ...

They also exposed the small creatures to blasts of radiation, watching to see how gene expression and protein production would be affected – and the sort of biological superpowers these genes might ...