Sentences with phrase «unknown function»

This behavior was associated with one specific plant gene, coding for a protein with unknown function.

These include many known DNA repair factors, as well as new proteins of previously unknown function.

About 64 percent of the genes have assigned roles in the cell, while 20 percent match other hypothetical genes with unknown function.

This circuit involves the nucleus reuniens (NR), a thalamic nucleus of largely unknown function.

The active substance in the vaccine is a glycoprotein, a sugar - laden protein of unknown function produced by O. ulmi.

Genes encoding proteins of unknown function constitute 28 % of the essential protein - coding genes set.

Structure and ligand binding of the soluble domain of a Thermotoga maritima membrane protein of unknown function TM1634.

Unknown functions pretty much as The Bourne Identity meets Salt, but sadly is closer to the latter in terms of quality.

Our method is a first step toward developing a new mathematical toolkit to uncover the structure of neural circuits with unknown function in the brain.»

Even those Mycoplasma cells with less than 500 genes, there are still 200 genes of unknown function in that cell.

The variant is located within a putative gene of unknown function in a region on chromosome 8 known to be one of the most frequently amplified chromosomal regions in prostate tumors.

Furthermore, the researchers have discovered that CEP63 is associated with sperm production — an unknown function until now.

They also identified genomic hotspots that seem to play a key role in adaptation and survival, with many having an unknown function.

«Our findings point toward a previously unknown function of the DNMT3A protein in the interaction of these two epigenetic modifications that are normally not directly linked.

University of North Carolina plant immunologist Jeff Dangl says plants have many immune receptors with unknown functions: «There may be a vast listening apparatus just waiting to be discovered.»

Of those, 149 have unknown functions.

So his team sifted through genetic information from 45,000 microbes, flagging groups of genes with unknown functions that were located near known defense - related genes.

It has 473 genes — a staggering 149 of which are of unknown function.

To find and clone a human gene of unknown function, researchers begin with a genetic map.

If we then repeat this on a different strain that is missing a different protein of unknown function, we can compare its signature to the others and begin to figure out what that protein is doing.»

Zhao and his colleagues discovered that as a terminally differentiated progeny, megakaryocytes regulate hematopoietic stem cells by performing two previously unknown functions.

Zhou recalls that it was both the opportunity to help the disabled and an interest in the unknown functions of the brain that drew him into working with the program.

Moreover, they were alerted to previously unknown functions of fucose in the course of infection.

ANKRD55 is a gene with an unknown function.

Its Italian counterpart has condemned the patenting of gene fragments «of unknown function», and the Italian senate is believed to have instructed publicly funded laboratories not to send data to the database.

And some have a piston — a tentacle that can extend and retract very quickly — with an unknown function that might be used for escape or feeding.

The most common genetic mutation in ALS and FTD is an abnormal repeated expansion of the coding sequence within a gene, C9ORF72, with unknown function.

The causative mutation was a repetition of a piece of non-coding DNA, a so called tandem repeat, in a gene with an unknown function, named C9orf72.

Themis (thymocyte - expressed molecule involved in selection), a member of a family of proteins with unknown functions, is highly conserved among vertebrates.

Current understanding of Bcl - xL's structure describes a protein with three regions — a core that interacts with proteins involved in cell death, a flexible region lacking defined structure (IDR) with an unknown function, and a membrane - anchoring region that attaches the protein to specific sites within the cell.

«There were 149 genes of unknown function.

From the total, 407 CDSs were of unknown function or encoded «hypothetical proteins.»

Whole exome or whole genome sequencing can identify the genetic cause in patients, but these new technologies generate massive amounts of data on genetic variants in genes with known and unknown functions, involved in hereditary (mitochondrial) cardiomyopathies, cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure.

We will also use techniques that can tell us whether any of these effects are due to the anti-inflammatory properties of our virus, or due to an unknown function.

Key to the project are lab and bioinformatics exercises that will give students the unique opportunity to work with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory researcher David Jackson in determining the cellular analysis of Arabidopsis genes of unknown function.

Consistent with other lipocalins expressed in the VNO Lcn16 is extremely abundantly expressed in acinar cells of the vomeronasal gland [37], [39], while Lcn17 is expressed in cells of unknown function that are scattered throughout the main olfactory epithelium.

A well - studied protein, AvrPtoB, from the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae, is known to suppress the plant immune response, but has a previously unknown function, according to researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University and the USDA - Agricultural Research Service.

Il Hwan Kim of the National Institutes of Health and colleagues discovered a protein of unknown function that specifically binds juvenile hormone in several species of mosquito.

Crystal structure of an ADP - ribosylated protein with a cytidine deaminase - like fold, but unknown function (TM1506), from Thermotoga maritima at 2.70 A resolution.