Sentences with phrase «in eukaryotes»

«We're still not very good at predicting genes in eukaryotes,» said Claire Fraser of The Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Maryland.

Loki has a number of genes typically found in eukaryotes, including genes linked to the dynamic, shape - shifting cytoskeleton.

He noted that Zhang was one of six labs that showed CRISPR worked in eukaryotes within 6 months of the Doudna - Charpentier paper.

BAR domain proteins are among the central membrane - sculpting proteins in all eukaryote cells.

RNA interference (RNAi) is a type of gene regulation that naturally occurs in eukaryotes.

But intriguingly, the Lokiarchaea appear to have more than 100 genes coding for sophisticated cellular functions such as deforming cell membranes and forming and transporting bubble - like vesicles around the cell — functions that are usually only seen in eukaryotes like us.

This is the first known example of bacteria triggering mating in a eukaryote, a group that includes all plants and animals.

In eukaryotes such as animals and plants, DNA is stored inside the cell nucleus, while in prokaryotes such as bacteria and archaea, the DNA is in the cell's cytoplasm.

«So it's not as uniform as in eukaryotes,» says coauthor Karolin Luger, a biophysicist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Phosphoarginine functions as a protein degradation tag in Gram - positive bacteria analogous to ubiquitin in eukaryotes.

His PhD research aimed at the development of computational tools to predict miRNAs in eukaryotes.

The researchers saw that archaea DNA coils around the histones, similar to the way it does in eukaryotes.

Patrick Forterre of the University of Paris - Sud has also analyzed enzymes responsible for DNA replication and has concluded that the genes for such enzymes in eukaryotes probably have a viral origin.

The onset of M phase requires the activation of the pp34 protein kinase in all eukaryotes thus far examined.

The research has yielded some surprising results, including that nearly half of the proteome in eukaryotes is dark and has unexpected features, including an association with secretory tissues, disulfide bonding, low evolutionary conservation, and very few known interactions with other proteins.

While miRNAs are generally negative regulators of gene expression in eukaryotes, they also negatively regulate larval development when honeybee larvae consume beebread / pollen and take up plant miRNAs.

But it possesses an intriguing collection of genes that look as though they would be more at home in eukaryotes, rather like modern words dotting a medieval manuscript.

Moreover, certain signature Mimi genes, such as those that code for the production of the soccer - ball shape of its capsid (an outer protein coat common to all viruses), have been conserved in viruses that infect organisms from all three of the domains, particularly in eukaryotes.

«This is one of the first direct comparisons of 6mA and 5mC in eukaryotes, and the first 6mA study across the fungal kingdom,» said DOE JGI Fungal Genomics head and senior author Igor Grigoriev.

A gratifying finding was reported that the group extrapolated a putative sequence of miRNA - like fragment encoded by EVDV using the principle of miRNA production in eukaryotes.

In recent years, more and more researchers have supported the notion that introns evolved relatively late in eukaryote evolution, says W. Ford Doolittle, an evolutionary biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Researchers had begun to wonder if these bizarre parasites and their relatives could be living relicts of an early, pivotal time in eukaryote history.

Other scientists, noting the similarities between large DNA viruses and the cell nucleus that houses the genetic material in eukaryotes, have hypothesized that the nucleus may have originated when simple cells merged with viruses.

We are especially interested in the role of Cullin - RING complexes, the largest class of E3 ubiquitin ligases in eukaryotes.

As you know well if you've been following the Addgene blog, it has been repurposed for genome editing in eukaryotes, with the most widely used CRISPR genome editing system derived from Streptococcus Pyogenes (SP).

In eukaryote organisms (almost all large organisms, such as animals, plants, and fungi, but not bacteria), DNA forms a complex with proteins that are called histones.

He is now joining the Regulation of Protein Synthesis in Eukaryotes group, headed by Dr. Fátima Gebauer at CRG, and the Pathology and Molecular Oncology team at VHIR, led by Dr. Matilde Lleonart.

Cell division in eukaryotes is different from prokaryotes that lack a nucleus.

Excitingly, the Asgard genome assemblies also encode homologues of some of the key components of the membrane trafficking machinery in eukaryotes, including regulatory small GTPases and longin domains.

Further work on epigenetic regulators in eukaryotes will be accompanied by advanced engineering strategies to examine roles of epigenetic regulation in mammalian development, stem cells, ageing and disease.

The secretory signal peptide is a ubiquitous protein - sorting signal that targets its passenger protein for translocation across the endoplasmic reticulum membrane in eukaryotes and the cytoplasmic membrane in prokaryotes.

The Orr - Weaver lab isolated a protein that provides the crucial switch to initiate DNA replication in eukaryotes, including humans.

[5] Embley TM; Multiple secondary origins of the anaerobic lifestyle in eukaryotes; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 2006

Although the majority of genes related to energy production, cell division, and metabolism in M. jannaschii are most similar to those found in Bacteria, most of the genes involved in transcription, translation, and replication in M. jannaschii are more similar to those found in Eukaryotes.

Zhang's group reported in the 15 February 2013 online issue of Science that CRISPR worked in eukaryotes.

Meiosis is essential for sexual reproduction and therefore occurs in all eukaryotes (including single - celled organisms) that reproduce sexually.

Most structural and regulatory genes in eukaryotes are members of gene families.

But the way archaea DNA twists around histones isn't identical to the coils of DNA seen in eukaryotes.

This is one of the first demonstrations that bacteria can drive mating in eukaryotes, say the authors who will present their work at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) in San Francisco on December 6.

CaaX processing is a posttranslational modification of the carboxyl - terminus of more than one hundred proteins in eukaryotes that are essential for growth, development and survival.

In eukaryotes, a strand of DNA loops twice around a cluster of eight histones to create what's called a nucleosome, and connects many of these nucleosomes like beads on a string.

Some support for this idea comes from sequence data showing that the gene for a DNA polymerase (a DNAcopying enzyme) in the virus called T4, which infects bacteria, is closely related to other DNA polymerase genes in both eukaryotes and the viruses that infect them.

In eukaryotes, these genes enable the cell membrane to change shape.