Sentences with phrase «complex cell machinery»
Like fellow prokaryotic bacteria, archaea lack a true cell nucleus and other complex cell machinery.
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For most purposes, then, we are quite safe in regarding physiological processes as dominated by patterns of physical feeling, and in expecting that research will reveal the «machinery» of living cells to be more complex than we have yet imagined.
This bundling of DNA acts as a switchboard for controlling genes» activity and directs a cell's complex molecular machinery.
Given the potential for living systems to produce highly complex chemical compounds, researchers working with Michelle C.Y. Chang at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), aimed to manipulate the biosynthetic machinery in cells to use simple fluorinated building blocks to make new organofluorine target molecules.
They then showed that when the mice broke down disulfiram, its main metabolite, ditiocarb, forms a complex with copper that blocks the machinery that cells use to dispose of misfolded and unneeded proteins.
The RITS complex is composed of three proteins, including Ago1, a key component of the cell's RNAi machinery.
«It could be that there is something within the very complex machinery of a cell that allows the Cas9 enzyme to more easily accomplish deletions and insertions,» Sansbury said.