Sentences with phrase «lamin as»

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Success continued on the ice in February as Christie took World Cup golds in Dresden and Dordrecht, but Lamin Deen and his four - man bobsleigh crew missed out on a World Championship medal after crashing out on the third run while sitting in fourth.

Through his Twitter handle, Lamin Manneh, the One - UN Rwanda Resident Coordinator, described the launch of the African passport as «One of the high moments» of the summit.

In collaboration with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) in Dallas, the researchers found that the tumor - suppressive activity of geranylgeraniol was accompanied by down - regulation of HMG CoA reductase, a key enzyme in the mevalonate pathway that provides essential intermediates for the posttranslational modification of growth - related proteins such as Ras, nuclear lamins and insulin - like growth factor receptors.

Using mutated versions of the lamin A gene as an example to demonstrate the versatility of their virus - based approach, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies successfully edited a diseased gene in patient - specific induced pluripotent stem cells as well as adult stem cells.

A rare, premature aging disease, Hutchinson - Gilford progeria is caused by a single point mutation in the gene encoding lamin A, which forms a protein scaffold on the inner edge of the nucleus that helps maintain chromatin structure and organize nuclear processes such as RNA and DNA synthesis.

Comparing cells from children with progeria and their symptom - free parents, the team found that the progeria cells have increased chromatin «sticky note» mesas in lamin regions that are not normally marked as mesas.