Sentences with phrase «called tyrosine»

TPO is an enzyme that helps attach iodine to an amino acid called tyrosine.
Phenylalanine: This amino acid is converted into another amino acid called tyrosine and joins to create adrenaline.
Your thyroid gland takes iodine from foods — the only way iodine can be obtained — combines it with an amino acid called tyrosine and converts it to three types of hormones: triiodothyronine (T3), thyroxine (T4) and diiodothyronine (T2).
In fact, numerous animal studies show that soy isoflavones interfere with an enzyme called tyrosine kinase in the hippocampus, a brain region involved with learning and memory.
The product of the resulting BCR - ABL fusion oncogene possesses ABL's so - called tyrosine kinase activity — the ability to add phosphate chemical groups to the amino acid tyrosine — but fails to turn off appropriately.
Druker also led the original clinical development of Gleevec, which inhibits a biological switch called a tyrosine kinase that is abnormally activated in CML.
Hunter is known for his 1979 discovery of a mechanism called tyrosine phosphorylation, which is a molecular switch that turns normal cells cancerous.
These therapies, the first an antibody and the second of a class called tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), reduce the ability of a target gene to manufacture the protein it encodes.
Drugs called tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are generally successful at controlling the cancer.
Approximately 10 - 15 % of Caucasian and 30 - 35 % of Asian patients with NSCLC have a mutation in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), which can be successfully targeted with EGFR inhibitors called tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI), such as erlotinib, gefitinib and afatinib.
It is an enzyme — one in a «superfamily» of 105 called protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs)-- that perform the essential biochemical task of removing phosphate groups from amino acids called tyrosines in other proteins.

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The drug works by inhibiting an enzyme called low molecular weight protein tyrosine phosphatase (LMPTP), which seems to contribute to cells losing their sensitivity to insulin.
Therefore, a team led by Vladimir Tesar, MD, PhD (Charles University and General University Hospital, in the Czech Republic) tested the potential of an investigational drug called bosutinib that inhibits a particular tyrosine kinase called Src / Bcr - Abl.
The target for ibrutinib, an enzyme called Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK), is a key component of B - cell receptor signaling.
These receptors, called receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs), transmit instructions through the cell wall and down through a cascade of reactions to a target gene in the nucleus.
When PDGF arrives at the cell surface, it binds to a protein called PDGF receptor tyrosine kinase (PDGF RTK).
When plants start manufacturing betalains, the first step is conversion of tyrosine into an intermediate product, the chemical called L - dopa.
Researchers at ICI's toxicological laboratories found when they screened a potential synthetic herbicide called NTBC that it affects the metabolism of the amino acid tyrosine.
It inhibits two tyrosine kinase enzymes called Jak1 and Jak2, which rev up production of immune cells.
The sequence, called an ITAM (immunoreceptor tyrosine - based activation motif), encodes a piece of protein that can by itself signal immune system cells to multiply and go to work.
In 2005, Cagan's team created a general fly model of a human thyroid tumor caused by mutations in the Ret receptor tyrosine kinase gene, then screened a panel of drugs including a kinase inhibitor called vandetanib that suppressed the tumor (Cancer Res, 65:3538 - 41, 2005).
Navire Pharma is a new company aimed at developing novel small - molecule inhibitors of a tyrosine - protein phosphatase called SHP2 (also known as PTPN11) for genetically - driven and treatment - resistant cancer.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and BridgeBio Pharma today announced the launch of Navire Pharma, a biopharmaceutical company aimed at developing novel small - molecule inhibitors of a tyrosine - protein phosphatase called SHP2 for genetically driven and treatment - resistant cancer.
An enzymatic defect in the tyrosine catabolism results in a toxic accumulation of byproducts within hepatocytes unless the mice are treated with a drug called NBTC.
According to Vogelstein, genetic mutations can produce a tyrosine kinase that is essentially «turned on» in the absence of a normal activation signal, which is called constitutive activation.
Some studies suggest a link between depressed mood and low levels of tyrosine, an amino acid that produces the so - called «happy hormone» dopamine.
The body makes tyrosine from another amino acid called phenylalanine, and in turn, tyrosine assists the production of hormones such as norepinephrine and thyroid hormones.
Specifically, your thyroid gland's job is to take iodine, which is found in many foods, and combine it with tyrosine to produce thyroid hormones: a storage hormone called thyroxine (T4) and active thyroid hormone called triiodothyronine (T3).
Tyrosine is a nonessential amino acid the body makes from another amino acid called phenylalanine.
Of the twenty amino acids needed for proper construction, eight are called essential amino acids for adults, nine for children, since the body can not synthesize or make these for itself: histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine (which becomes cystine), phenylalanine (which becomes tyrosine), threonine, tryptophan, and valine.
Tyrosine: In a process called iodination, iodine, tyrosine and thyroglobulin bind together in making your T4 mTyrosine: In a process called iodination, iodine, tyrosine and thyroglobulin bind together in making your T4 mtyrosine and thyroglobulin bind together in making your T4 molecule.
While research in this area is still in the preliminary stage and remains mixed in terms of results, vanadium may help to increase our body's sensitivity to insulin by inhibiting a group of enzymes called protein tyrosine phosphatases.
The most influential amino acids in this regard are arginine, and the so - called branched - chain amino acids — isoleucine, leucine, valine, tyrosine and phenylalanine.
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