This results in cells having less mitochondrial DNA, decreased mitochondrial membrane potential and a faulty process in
cell metabolism called oxidative phosphorylation.
Not exact matches
When looking for genes that might play important roles in the
metabolism of healthy and cancerous liver
cells, Wang and his colleagues became interested in a gene
called SLC13A5, which produces a protein that transports citrate into
cells.
They all use RNA molecules as messengers to transfer the information from DNA to cellular factories
called ribosomes, which then build proteins, which in turn drive our
metabolisms and form the structures of our
cells.
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.
Mitochondria are found in
cells and they use oxygen to produce energy in a process
called oxidative
metabolism.
To find out why, computational biologists came up with a computer model to predict how microbial
metabolism and cellular composition change as
cell size varies, using details about how much space a bacterium needs for its components — DNA, proteins, and the molecular factories
called ribosomes — to function.
Cell Phones Alter Brain
Metabolism: A 50 - minute phone call boosts metabolism in the brain regions closest to the antenna, including areas involved in language, decision making, and emotional p
Metabolism: A 50 - minute phone
call boosts
metabolism in the brain regions closest to the antenna, including areas involved in language, decision making, and emotional p
metabolism in the brain regions closest to the antenna, including areas involved in language, decision making, and emotional processing.
She found that 50 - minute
cell phone
calls increased
metabolism in the regions closest to the phone antenna — specifically, the orbitofrontal cortex and temporal pole, which are involved in sensory integration, language, decision making, and social and emotional processing.
To analyse the tumour
cells»
metabolism, they used a technique
called «metabolomics ``.
The patterns of a type of molecule that influences epigenetic inheritance,
called small noncoding RNA, differed between the two groups, as did methylation patterns in the sperm DNA in the two groups, the team reports today in
Cell Metabolism.
By performing DNA sequencing of more than 4,000 families affected by neurological problems, the two research teams independently discovered that a disease marked by reduced brain size and sensory and motor defects is caused by a mutation in a gene
called CLP1, which is known to regulate tRNA
metabolism in
cells.
In the Nature Communications study, UTSW researchers also reported how miR - 17 causes cyst proliferation: the molecule essentially reprograms the
metabolism of kidney
cells so that cellular structures
called mitochondria use less nutrients, freeing up resources to instead make
cell parts that become cysts.
Low temperatures activate the brown - fat thermogenesis process via the sympathetic nervous system: Nerve ends in brown fat tissue release the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, and that triggers a shift in
metabolism within the brown fat
cells, which are densely packed with tiny biological energy reactors
called mitochondria.
In the journal
Cell, Peter Carmeliet (VIB - KU Leuven) and his team reported that sugar
metabolism (a process that we
call glycolysis) also plays an essential role in the formation of new blood vessels.
ERC Starting Grant Dr. Cristina García - CáceresIn the funded project Dr. Cristina García - Cáceres and her team are investigating how brain
cells called astrocytes cooperate with neurons in the control of systemic
metabolism in response to hormones and nutrients.
Jonathan Schertzer, assistant professor of biochemistry and biomedical sciences and senior author of a paper published by
Cell Metabolism, explains it this way: «We know that gut bacteria, often
called the microbiome, send inflammation signals that change how well insulin works to lower blood glucose.
Studies in
cells and genetically modified mice show that the regulatory subunit of the PI 3 - kinase, a protein
called p85, works both ways, says C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., Head of the Joslin Section on Integrative Physiology and
Metabolism, and senior author on a Nature Medicine paper reporting the discovery on March 28.
When aSyn was produced at low levels, it made its way to the
cell membrane and appeared to regulate chemical trafficking and
metabolism of compounds
called lipids — what may be normal functions for this protein.
* Monocarboxylate transporters carry a group of molecules
called monocarboxylates to and from
cell membranes and are essential to
cell metabolism.
Laszlo Nagy, M.D., Ph.D., director of SBP's Genomic Control of
Metabolism Program, will present new research that suggests that the inflammatory process — and specifically a type of white blood
cells called macrophages — are involved.
They protect your
cells from unstable molecules
called free radicals, which are produced during
metabolism (37, 38, 39).
Cancer
cells are dependent on glucose
metabolism, a phenomenon
called the Warburg effect.
Free T3 (FT3) and Free T4 (FT4) are
called this because they are not bound to proteins in your blood, making them free to perform their work in your
cells — keeping your
metabolism appropriately revved up for your optimal health.
Then the
cell uses anaerobic
metabolism (anaerobic means «without oxygen») to make ATP and a byproduct
called lactic acid from the glucose.
During cellular
metabolism,
cells use oxygen to convert food into a form of energy the body can use,
called ATP.