Sentences with phrase «called phosphorylation»

The research team, led by Professor Yoshiaki Ito, Senior Principal Investigator at CSI Singapore, found that a modification called phosphorylation made to RUNX3 promotes cancer progression by allowing cell division.

But mutated or dysfunctional Rb is associated with several major cancers and Cyclin D has long been described as an oncogene that promotes cancer because it was believed to inactivate the Rb tumor suppressor function through a process called phosphorylation, which involves phosphate molecules being added to proteins, essentially turning them on or off.

In 1996, Peter Klein of the University of Pennsylvania discovered that one of lithium's biological activities was inhibiting GSK - 3, an enzyme that modifies other proteins by attaching phosphate molecules, a process called phosphorylation.

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The hope is that 3BP specifically kills certain cancer cells — while leaving normal cells alone — because they rely more on glucose metabolism than on an alternative pathway called oxidative phosphorylation.

This results in cells having less mitochondrial DNA, decreased mitochondrial membrane potential and a faulty process in cell metabolism called oxidative phosphorylation.

The second method, called oxidative phosphorylation, produces free radicals, reactive forms of oxygen that can be particularly harmful to a cell's DNA.

Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have made the surprisingly simple discovery: The phosphorylation of more than 100 secreted proteins is the work of a single enzyme called Fam20C.

In a recent study appearing in Nature Publishing Group's Scientific Reports, the researchers focused on the properties of schreibersite and conducted experiments with the mineral to better understand how — in a chemical reaction with the corrosive effects of water called «phosphorylation» — schreibersite could have provided the phosphate important to the emergence of early biological life.

Somatic cells generate their energy in an oxygen - fueled process called oxidative phosphorylation, which takes place in the mitochondria, also known as cellular powerhouses.

In the past 27 years, we have found that this cycling sugar modification of proteins — called O - linked N - acetylglucosamine, or O - GlcNAc — is nearly as common as protein phosphorylation and often competes with it at the same or proximal sites on proteins to regulate nearly every cellular process in response to nutrients and stress.

Also called OXPHOS Complexes (Oxidative Phosphorylation) that make redox NADPH be used as electron donor through ETC and allow mitochondria to produce cell energy ATP.

Hunter is known for his 1979 discovery of a mechanism called tyrosine phosphorylation, which is a molecular switch that turns normal cells cancerous.

Iron is useful for participating in lots of different chemical reactions in the body, as part of normal metabolism, but it's also important for caring oxygen to our tissues and oxygen is what we need in a process called oxidative phosphorylation, which gives us energy.