Sentences with phrase «stb6 gene codes»

Ginkgo's executives request the gene code for the oil from an outside provider.

Some proteins that these genes code for are known to be involved in stress and cell death.

In particular, he has focused on targeting the gene coding for flagellin protein b, or flaB, which has proved to be quite distinct from one genospecies to the next.

What's more, the gene codes for a chemical receptor involved in many brain functions, such as learning and memory, so the gene might also be involved in behavioral disorders.

The COMT gene codes for an enzyme that breaks down dopamine in the prefrontal cortex.

Mitochondria contain genes coding for proteins important in energy production.

These are sequences made in the lab from RNA — the template used to produce the proteins that genes code for.

However, in the presentations, speakers for both teams said that two stretches of the gene code for so - called zinc fingers — protein structures that insert themselves into the grooves of DNA — suggesting that the encoded protein probably turns other genes on and off.

«For example, viral genes code for their own proteins that process their DNA,» said Gundlach.

His suspicionswas confirmed: the children had an identical defect — a missing single nucleic acid, called guanine — in the gene coding for leptin.

Another connects post-traumatic stress disorder to methylation of the gene coding for neurotrophic factor, a protein that regulates the growth of neurons in the brain.

Several mutations were found in genes coding the machinery that makes mitochondrial proteins, and so would probably hinder mitochondria's ability to make the chemical fuel called ATP, which is used by normal cells.

(The DNA in genes code for mRNA, which, in turn, codes for proteins.)

The MDR1 gene codes for a protein that helps to extract drugs from cells.

Then, 15 years ago, Shatz stumbled across genes coding for MHCI in fetal cat brains.

In one of his team's first experiments, a light - sensing gene coded to «turn on» the right side of the motor cortex was put into mice.

The normal gene codes for a receptor for ethylene, a gaseous plant hormone that ripens fruit.

Shatz got a hint when she looked up ailments associated with mutations in genes coding for the human version of MHCI.

There are several reasons why nobody before Shatz had found genes coding for MHCI in normal neurons.

They sequenced the gene coding for the receptor in patients with either severe skin allergies or hyper - IgE syndrome, a rare condition in which the body produces too much IgE.

Juha Tapanainen of Oulu University Hospital in Oulu and colleagues at the University of Helsinki studied 15 brothers of infertile women who had mutations in the gene coding for the FSH receptor.

But knowing this, researchers note, does not necessarily explain what those genes do, given that many genes code for multiple forms of a protein, each of which could have a different role in a variety of biological processes.

A phage means bacteria eater and so they were very specific hosts, which is a very specific bacteria, and we like these viruses a lot because they only have a couple different genes and those genes code for a couple different proteins and so they are easy for us to manipulate in the lab.

These genes code for proteins involved in transporting small containers called vesicles throughout the healthy cell, but these proteins are often hijacked by viruses in order to move the virus through the cell.

These genes code for surface features on the toxin that trigger antibody production.

His trick was to insert the gene coding for CREB into a version of the herpesvirus that can infect neurons without spreading to nearby cells.

Many genes are likely to influence delay discounting; and some of Dr. Ahokhin's preliminary data suggest that these «impulsivity genes» may include genes coding for enzymes that synthesize the neurotransmitter serotonin and receptors where serotonin binds in the brain.

The LAT gene codes not for a protein but for a short stretch of RNA, Fraser and his colleagues report online this week in Nature.

Transcription - factor genes code for proteins that regulate the activity of other genes and so affect an animal's ability to respond to its environment.

By comparing proteomic and RNA - sequencing data from people on different exercise programs, the researchers found evidence that exercise encourages the cell to make more RNA copies of genes coding for mitochondrial proteins and proteins responsible for muscle growth.

She has tracked dramatic increases in the prevalence of several genes and suites of genes coding for drug resistance.

Sickle cell disease is a recessive genetic disorder caused by a single mutation in both copies of a gene coding for beta - globin, a protein that forms part of the oxygen - carrying molecule hemoglobin.

Xi's work also shows that even the genes that Rafflesia plants inherited from their own ancestors have appropriated the characteristics of the vines» genes; up to 30 percent of the corpse flowers» native genes code for proteins (the process that helps to determine physical traits) in a way that's more like the vines» than like its fellow Malpighiales».

Researchers found that kochia has evolved to have multiple copies of a gene code that targets glyphosate.

Previous work in Atlantic salmon has shown that the diversity of genes coding for the MHC binding site is lower in animals that typically live in lower temperature conditions.

The unique Hox gene coding that we observed in this study is likely to have evolved in a transitional organism, in which fins began to develop a more limblike structure.

By selectively adding or deleting stretches of DNA in the (artificially) fertilized cell, scientists could knock out genes for a disease like diabetes or insert genes coding for extra height or intelligence.

«Genes code for the sequence of amino acids in proteins, and some are involved in the regulation of the expression of other genes,» he says.

They looked specifically for genes coding the major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-- a molecule found on the surface of cells that acts as a crucial component of the immune systems of most vertebrates.

Most resistance genes, in wheat and other plants, code for protein receptors located inside cells; the Stb6 gene codes for a receptor protein on the cell's surface.

We found 20 genes that distinguished motor neurons that innervate digit muscles from the others, and there's a strange gene code involved in the cells» development.

Ten of those genes code for odor receptors, which researchers anticipate could become targets for future louse repellents.

All of these genes code for transcription factors, which are proteins that control the expression of other genes.

This gene codes for part of a pore in nerve cells called a potassium channel that is vital for transmitting nerve impulses to adjoining cells.

James Reid and his colleagues at the University of Tasmania in Hobart will report in the August issue of The Plant Cell that the tallness gene codes for an enzyme involved in the manufacture of the growth hormone gibberellin.

It is perhaps thus likely that that these damaged genes coding for psychiatric diseases are overrepresented in women with fertility problems, and, if transferred to their offspring, this may at least partly explain the increased risk of psychiatric diseases.»

Over half of the 70 genes code for proteins that are known to regulate development and physiology of the skeletal, cardiovascular, and nervous system — just the type of genes predicted to be necessary for driving the development of the giraffe's unique characteristics.

In many cancerous cells, p53 doesn't work because the gene coding for it has mutated.

Adam, a robot designed at Aberystwyth University in the UK, created 20 hypotheses about yeast genes and illuminated a decades - old puzzle concerning which genes code for an enzyme.

The gene codes for an immune receptor on red blood cells; lack of that receptor prevents infection by Plasmodium vivax, a species of the malaria parasite.