TLL Scientists Discover New Fundamental Class of Proteins Named “Guardian”

1 November 2017, Singapore – Scientists at Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) have discovered the founding member of a new class of proteins that functions to protect newly translated and actively folding polypeptides from degradation. The research is led by Temasek Senior Investigator A/Prof Davis Ng and the team has named this new class of proteins as “Guardian”. This novel finding has been recently published as a research article in the prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journal Cell.