Sentences with phrase «cell proteins»

Cell protein synthesis is controlled by DNA code and is the basis for all life.

It uses a specially developed fluorescent marker which attaches to cell proteins when injected into patients.

Using animal models of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection, researchers show that blocking the activity of a host cell protein called LSD1 reduces HSV infection, shedding (release of viral particles) and recurrence.

The rods are coated with molecules (RGD - peptides) that make them stick specifically to a type of cell protein called integrin.

Proteomics is an attempt to devise industrial - scale techniques to map the identity and activities of all the proteins in a cell

«Researchers find new functions of blood cell protein in transplant.»

«We have shown that when FBW7 is functionally inactivated this leads to a block of degradation of the stem cell protein SOX9 which becomes more stable in the brain cancer cells,» said first author Aldwin Suryo Rahmanto at the department of Cell and Molecular Biology.

Previous studies showed that CD70 interacts with another immune cell protein called CD27, an interaction that may be important for the proper function of lymphocytes.

Using a crystal structure of a complex protein compound of botulinum neurotoxin, Rongsheng Jin, associate professor of physiology & biophysics at UC Irvine, and collaborators found that these compounds — called clostridial hemagglutinin (HA)-- bind with epithelial cell proteins in the intestines of patients, which initiates a process that disrupts the close intercellular seals so that the complex toxin molecules can slip through the epithelial barrier.

In 2004, Brunger's group published an article in Nature detailing how the toxins that cause botulism and tetanus can recognize and attack particular nerve cell proteins at the neuromuscular junction.

To survive, the cell sequesters in the granules» genetic material that codes for cell proteins not necessary for survival - critical processes.

Moreover, levels of certain mast cell proteins are elevated in patients with DHF compared to those with milder dengue fever (Furuta et al., 2012).

Scientists at the University of Bonn have succeeded in observing an important cell protein at work.

When exposed to strong heat or radiation, vital cell proteins lose their structure and clot up to entangled clumps.

Upon encountering a cancer cell protein, a dendritic cell «swallows it,» breaks it up, and displays the pieces on its surface for notice by T cells in the nearest lymph node.

Host cell proteins interacting with the 3» end of TGEV coronavirus genome influence virus replication.

It shows that the virus is «hijacking some fundamental machinery from the cell,» he says, although which cell proteins are critical for virus entry remains to be worked out.

In particular, they have examined the ways in which viruses hijack cell proteins to help regulate their exit and spread from the host cell through the budding process.

A pair of molecules — a type of DNA snippet called CpG and an antibody against the immune cell protein OX40 — produced the best results.

Fluorescing proteins accurately predict the demise of nematode worms, by measuring the activity of free radicals within their cells

In further tests, he and his colleagues designed a mutated version of the botulism compound, based on the novel crystal structure, in which HA would not bind with the epithelial cell protein E-cadherin.

It was Allison's team that identified a T cell protein called CD28 as the crucial co-stimulator — the gas pedal to the TCR's ignition switch.

«Research reveals mechanism behind cell protein remodeling.»

In the current work, the researchers screened for new WW motifs from mammalian cell proteins that bound tightly to the PY motif of Ebola virus» VP40 protein.

Even more encouraging, the engineered tissues still continued to produce human neural, cartilage, and liver cell proteins, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«This effect was also found after a blockade of DR6 or the cancer - cell protein APP, thus confirming our previous observations,» Strilic says.

«Yeast knockouts peel back secrets of cell protein function.»

And because researchers break apart and then reassemble the 3 - billion - letter - long genetic instruction book in order to analyze it, sections that have duplicated genes are harder to put in the right order and thus harder to study, which was the case with the region containing the red blood cell protein DNA.

Purdue scientists identify an intestinal cell protein that could lead to a vaccine against Listeria, a bacterium that causes food poisoning.

In test tube experiments, they linked virus fragments to human cell proteins; adding this complex to the T cells provoked them to fight the virus.

Interactions between Chlamydia trachomatis proteins and host cell proteins help determine whether the bacterium leaves an infected cell via breakdown of the cellular membrane (lysis) or in a membrane - bound package, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens by Phu Hai Nguyen of the National Institutes of Health, U.S., and colleagues.

In order to better understand how viruses and cell proteins collaborate or counteract each other, the research team has studied the Nora virus in fruit flies.

It built on previous ground - breaking work on malaria published in 2011 by author Monash Professor Christian Doerig, and others, who found that if host cell protein kinases were prevented from working it would kill malaria parasites.

c) Characterization of bacterial and host cell proteins involved in the formation of the adhesion / invasion microcompartment.

Scientists knew that somehow these tiny cell organelles become deformed and cause these diseases because of a problem related to their assembly, which requires the translocation of vast quantities of the vital cell protein tubulin.

High calcium levels trigger a series of reactions that break down cell proteins known as microtubules (My - kro - TOOB - yuhlz).

In prion diseases, which include mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease, a normal cell protein, PrP, assumes an abnormal shape.

This protein commandeers a host cell protein complex, human TREX, to stabilise and transport herpesvirus RNA out of the nucleus for translation into viral proteins.

Plague bacteria invade immune system cells and use the host's own cell proteins to protect themselves from being digested inside the host's cells, a process called phagocytosis.

In particularly promising research, our experts are studying a series of beta cell proteins that are found at abnormally low levels in patients with diabetes.

Iron is found in haemoglobin, a red blood cell protein essential for the transport of oxygen in the blood to the body's tissues.

The study also revealed that the stimulatory effect of this plant steroid on muscle cell protein synthesis resulted in an increase in muscle mass, lean body mass as well as physical performance.

In the Kcne2 potassium channel ancillary subunit knockout model, disruption of this gene induces achlorhydria and is related to reduced parietal cell protein secretion and abnormal parietal cell morphology.

Once the bonded thyroid hormone reaches the target cells the protein is removed and the hormone turns to its free metabolically active form.