«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.
Not exact matches
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.