Sentences with phrase «called zinc finger protein»

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However, in the presentations, speakers for both teams said that two stretches of the gene code for so - called zinc fingers — protein structures that insert themselves into the grooves of DNA — suggesting that the encoded protein probably turns other genes on and off.

Talk of curing AIDS made front - page news last year, in part due to an astonishing new gene - editing technology: lab - engineered proteins called zinc finger nucleases.

Its competitors — designer proteins called zinc finger nucleases and TALENs — also precisely alter chosen DNA sequences, and several companies are already exploiting them for therapeutic purposes in clinical trials.

These gene - regulating proteins have an important feature called a zinc finger domain.

In clinical trials already underway, for example, researchers have used an older gene - editing technique, enzymes call zinc finger nucleases, in immune cells to deactivate the gene for CCR5, a surface protein that HIV latches onto in order to infect cells.

Last year, researchers targeted and destroyed this gene in the T - cells of 12 people with HIV using custom - made proteins called zinc finger nucleases.

When zinc hooks up with a gene - controlling protein, it forms «zinc finger proteins» - so called because they can poke into the tight groove between the two strands of DNA and touch the sequence they're made for.

Working with proteins called zinc finger nucleases and TALENs, Zhang attempted to edit the genomes of mammalian cells with a view to engineering them.