Sentences with phrase «additional genes encoding»

A family of neuropeptide genes which includes the gene encoding ELH along with two additional genes encoding the A and B peptides thought to initiate the egg - laying process has been isolated and their nucleotide sequence has been determined.

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The researchers scoured the already deciphered mouse genome, looking for genes that might encode additional receptor proteins in its olfactory system, the sensory cells that connect the nose to the brain.

Center for Elephant Conservation, elephants have 38 additional modified copies (alleles) of a gene that encodes p53, a well - defined tumor suppressor, as compared to humans, who have only two.

The genes introduced by the German group encode enzymes that add carbon double bonds to the precursors and tack on additional carbon atoms, creating a range of omega - 3 and other fatty acids.

Once the bacterial cell signaling protein cagA reaches the host cytosol, it is capable of altering subsequent generations of progenitor cells, leading to the development of cancer through changes in mitotic activity, apoptosis, cellular assembly, and signaling.26 Although it should be noted that while the presence of the cagA protein doubles the risk of gastric cancer, cagA - negative strands also increase the risk of distal gastric cancer.27 Additional H pylori virulence factors include babA2, which encodes bacterial adhesion with gastric epithelial cells, and vacuolating cytotoxin A, which is encoded by the gene vacA.28, 29 H pylori strains carrying some combination of the babA2, cagA, and vacA genes were associated with the highest risk of developing intestinal metaplasia.

Here, we identify three additional novel mutant alleles of the SHELL gene, which encode a type II MADS - box transcription factor, and determine oil yield via control of shell fruit form phenotype in a manner similar to two previously identified mutant SHELL alleles.

Additional upregulated signal transduction related genes encoded proteins polycystin - 1L1, MLP and LIM regulatory proteins, fibrillins or related proteins containing Ca2 + - binding EGF - like domains, Ca2 + / Mg2 + - permeable cation channel, and other differentially expressed putative transcripts that may play a role in cellular signaling, including known extracellular proteins c - type lectin and collagen (see electronic supplementary material, table S5).

Receptor molecules coded by the 7 - repeat allele have been found to have a lower potency for dopamine - mediated coupling to adenylate cyclase than receptors encoded by the other frequent, 2 - or 4 - repeat forms [90], and more recent results suggest an additional effect of the 48 bp VNTR on gene expression [91, 92].