When Half a Protein Is Enough!

In the world of membrane proteins, truncated isoforms have long been treated as evolutionary leftovers - partial gene products that don’t quite “make the cut”. In many studies, they are filtered out of analyses as unstable, nonfunctional, or even nuisances. We too once viewed them this way. For this interesting behind the paper story, you can check our article in Springer Nature: https://go.nature.com/483kVvV