Sentences with phrase «hasa protein»

«It took us around four years to discover that phthalocyanine, which is a blue paint used on the surface of the Japanese bullet trains and road signs, could bind competitively to the HasA protein,» adds Ms. Chikako Shirataki, a PhD student in her final year, «crystal structures of metal protein complexes helped us to show that the phthalocyanine - bound HasA protein blocks the receptors on the cell surface of the bacterium and thus, inhibits the uptake of heme.»

«Upon looking closely at the crystal structure of the HasA protein binding heme, we considered the possibility of the HasA protein to bind to a metal complex that has a similar structure as heme» says Associate Professor Osami Shoji, who led the study.