Sentences with phrase «allowing normal protein»

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Allan Jacobson, Ph.D., of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and co-founder of PTC Therapeutics, the company that developed ataluren, and David Bedwell, Ph.D., professor of the UAB Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, have sought to understand precisely how ataluren allows the ribosome, the machinery of cellular protein synthesis, to skip over these inserted stop signs and produce proteins that have normal or near - normal function.

Or does the drug allow insertion of dissimilar amino acids that may distort the structure of a read - through protein, preventing it from normal function?

Kingsley speculates that in its normal form, the ank protein is a pyrophosphate channel that allows pyrophosphate levels to remain high in cartilage throughout life to prevent calcium phosphate crystal formation in the joint cleft.

While overproduction of either the genes or the protein is harmful, a balanced production of both p53 and the genes allows for normal cell development.

Of particular interest are the emerging techniques for genomics and proteomics, which allow profiles of gene expression and protein synthesis to be produced and comparisons to be made between normal and abnormal cells, as well as between cells before and after exposure to medicines or toxic chemicals.

Embryos that develop from fruit fly eggs lacking the normal amount of Oskar protein are unable to form germ cells — cells that allow reproduction — and so the resulting flies are sterile.

«This technology allows for the labeling of just one circulating pathological cell among billions of other normal blood cells by ultrafast changing color of photosensitive proteins inside the cell in response to laser light,» explains Dr. Galanzha.

That way, even if the original genes in the mitochondrial are deleted, the backup copies will be able to supply the proteins needed to keep normal energy production going, allowing the cellular power plants to continue humming along normally and preventing them from entering into the toxic, mutant metabolic state.

CRISPR has allowed scientists to tag and light up endogenous genes of interest to better understand normal protein function.

According to nutrition experts, each day a normal adult is not allowed to eat exceed 30g protein, 15g of animal protein equivalent to about 120 - 150g of protein - rich foods having animal origin.

In other cases, these high protein advocates may be professional bodybuilders who are taking large amounts of anabolic steroids, which can allow the body to utilize more protein than normal.

For 7 days they ate a normal diet, then for 14 days, their carb intake was limited to 21 grams per day, and they were allowed to east as much protein and fat as they wanted.

Since normal kidneys allow very little albumin protein in your pet's blood to escape into its urine, there are tests that check for its increased presence without comparing it to the amount of creatinine that is present.