Sentences with phrase «adding small molecules»

The team discovered that adding small molecules made from amino acids in the outer coordination sphere increased the speed without requiring additional energy to drive the catalyst.

They then add a small molecule called TRAP to the living cell, which finds and fits into the tag like two pieces in a puzzle.

Not exact matches

The synthesis method developed in this work opens up possible variations, such as cross-linking or chemical functionalization (adding atoms or small molecules to the carbon nanothread that alter its function).

«Some of these are big molecules and in semiconductor manufacturing if you're a company producing 10,000 12 - inch wafers a week — small amounts of something add up to big amounts of something.»

It may also be possible, he adds, «to produce these factors synthetically or develop small molecules that mimic the activity, but that takes much longer.»

The researchers behind the new study, from Winston - Salem State University in the US and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak in Malaysia, have found that adding similar, but smaller polycationic molecules onto a new kind of material called carbon nanodots makes them even better at killing drug - resistant bacteria.

In addition to adding the genes for glucaric acid production, the researchers engineered each cell to produce a protein that synthesizes a small molecule called AHL.

The GPCRs solved to date all required adding small druglike molecules in order to stabilize them, says Raymond Stevens, a structural biologist at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, who will lead the new consortium.

By using a small molecule called 2 - bromo - palmitate (2BP) that inhibits these palmitate - adding enzymes, the researchers surmise that cancer patients might be able to one day make their cells more sensitive to cancer - fighting EGFR inhibitors.

They are responsible for adding sugar molecules to numerous different types of proteins, whether it's a cell wall, or it's a small signaling peptide, which is what's responsible for the phenotypes in tomato.»

DNA methylation is an epigenetic process in which small molecules — methyl groups - are added to genes and fine - tune the gene's activity, like a dimmer switch.

But some bacteria have evolved a counter strategy — injecting special proteins that suppress the plant's immune response by adding small, disabling chemical tags called acetyl groups to immune molecules.

When she added small pieces of the phosphatase's extracellular domain to synoviocytes, the fragments occupied the binding sites on the proteoglycan molecules and thus prevented them from sequestering the phosphatase.

«If we could design a small molecule inhibitor that would look like heme - iron but would actually clog up a key metabolic pathway in bacteria, we may be able to get around the problem of antibiotic resistance,» suggests Dr. Mason, who adds that he and Dr. Justice plan to use the new five - year NIH grant to further studies of just such an inhibitor.

«The fact that bHLH - PAS proteins have ligand - binding pockets insides their architectures suggests they're regulated by small molecules that are naturally found in the body,» added Rastinejad.

Identifying small molecules that could be added to cells in culture to achieve reprogramming without the need for genetic modification.

They also support the existence of four related subtypes based on the patterns of DNA methylation — a chemical reaction in which a small molecule called a methyl group is added to DNA, changing the activity of individual genes.

IntraCELL V technology adds organic carbon to the trace minerals and breaks it down into new smaller re-structured molecules allowing them to be carried into the cell for maximum absorption.

Granted, the individual effects of an atom are quite small, but they add up to form molecules, crystals, rocks, continents, planets, stars, galaxies.

Ok, don't see where you gave where any of the numbers are coming from but it suffices you seem sure the radiation pressure from added GHG molecules (H2O or CO2), let's say 10 per million is so infinitesimally small that the lift of the atmosphere in every cubic meter per one meter layer up to say 80 km is so insignificant it can be totally ignored.

This smallness of their size is such that the total volume of the individual gas molecules added up is negligible compared to the volume of the smallest open ball containing all the molecules.