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This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"A team of researchers based at West Virginia University has devised an innovative way to potentially monitor enzyme activity in vivo using electron paramagnetic resonance imaging. The method could provide new insights into the molecular underpinnings of many types of disease. The team specifically focused on tracking enzymatic dephosphorylation. Abnormalities in dephosphorylation have been linked to disorders ranging from cancer to Alzheimer disease. Monitoring such malfunction in vivo can provide crucial details into disease state and progression, but direct measurement of enzyme activity within a living organism remains extremely challenging. Many imaging approaches that might be used for this purpose are hampered by concerns such as low sensitivity and penetration depth. Such limitations prompted the researchers to turn to EPRI – a method with high intrinsic sensitivity and specificity..."

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This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Calcineurin is a serine/threonine phosphatase that serves as a critical bridge between calcium signaling and the phosphorylation states of numerous important substrates. But despite being studied for approximately 40 years, exactly how calcineurin is activated in humans and other organisms is not yet fully understood. Structurally, calcineurin is a heterodimer expressed as three different isoforms: α, β, and γ each featuring a catalytic domain, a B chain binding helix, the regulatory domain, an autoinhibitory domain, and an unstructured C-terminal domain of unknown function. Disorder is a key hallmark of calcineurin’s structure. The intrinsically disordered regulatory domain could facilitate the rapid activation of calcineurin during calcium signaling. Increasing evidence suggests that calcineurin is a vital component of various signaling pathways. But even more work is needed to understand calcineurin’s versatility including how certain substrates bind to calcineurin..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.