Sentences with phrase «sno reactions»
He said the next step is to study how we can prevent these aberrant SNO reactions on particular proteins like PINK1.
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The SNO reaction seems to cause this same problem, but it is not inherited.
Since Lipton's group co-discovered the SNO reaction some 20 years ago, scientists have linked the reaction to protein misfolding and nerve cell damage in cases of Alzheimer's, Huntington's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS / Lou Gehrig's disease) and Parkinson's disease, as well as heart / cardiovascular disease and cancer.
The SNO reaction attaches a nitric oxide - like molecule to protein called PINK1, where the molecule attaches to a building block on PINK1 called a cysteine residue.
Not exact matches
A new study from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is the first to show precisely how a process in nerve cells called the S - nitrosylation (SNO) reaction — which can be caused by aging, pesticides and pollution — may contribute to Parkinson's disease.