Sentences with phrase «contain genes coding»

Mitochondria contain genes coding for proteins important in energy production.

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The OAR proposal uses a variation of therapeutic cloning called altered nuclear transfer (ANT) in which the nucleus of a donor cell (a skin cell, for example), containing the 30,000 genes of the genetic code, is altered in such a way that it produces an epigenetic factor, a protein called nanog.

A virus containing the gene that codes for two molecular «switches» essential for turning skin cells into brown fat was used to trigger the change (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature08262).

The human genome contains some 20,000 - 25,000 protein - coding genes, which is surprisingly similar to the number of genes in worms and flies.

By splicing genes for the original protein with ones that code for proteins containing different instructions, the researchers created a modified version of N - WASP.

«The genes and chromosomes contain what Schrödinger calls a «code script,» that gives orders which are carried out.

Although this was the first public suggestion that a gene contained something like a code, in 1892 a scientist named Fritz Miescher came up with something vaguely similar.

Making up 98 percent of the genome, these regions do not code for proteins, but they contain «switches» that like a conductor control when and where genes are expressed.

For this reason, their finding — that nearly half of the unmapped sequences contained in available genomic reference libraries, including many protein - coding genes, were located in the centromeres — was unexpected.

All the plant groups the researchers examined, except liverworts, contained at least one of three distinct introns — useless chunks of DNA located inside the coding sequence of a gene — in two different genes.

Its record - setting girth also holds the longest known viral genome, with DNA that stretches for 1.26 million base pairs, and contains an estimated 1,120 protein - coding genes, 14 percent more than Mimivirus's genome.

The human genome contains around three meters of DNA, of which only about two per cent contains genes that code for proteins.

TheCiona genome contains ∼ 16,000 protein - coding genes, similar to the number in other invertebrates, but only half that found in vertebrates.

The genome is just 69,200 bases long, the smallest known for chloroplasts, and contains 57 protein - coding genes, Keeling reports in the January Molecular Biology and Evolution.

The human genome — the sum total of hereditary information in a person — contains a lot more than the protein - coding genes teenagers learn about in school, a massive international project has found.

All together, they contain about 300 million bases — the «letters» that make up the genetic code — and 12,000 genes, including some involved in diabetes, cancer, and other common diseases, Richardson said.

Deeks and others believe the trial may have been partly successful because the vaccine contains HIV genes that code for «highly conserved» internal structures and enzymes that can not change much without harming the virus.

In the DNA code list, that critical information is contained in a short stretch of As and Cs and Gs and Ts that lie just before each gene and act as a switch that turns the gene on or off.

Through closer investigation, he found that the RNA sections that stuck around contained chemical codes that act as stop signs, prematurely halting the translation of the RNA from these two genes into proteins.

Cancer cells may contain mutations in genes that code for antigens, producing misshapen or otherwise altered antigens that are known to scientists as neoantigens.

The human genome contains about 3 billion base pairs, but only about 2 percent of these base pairs represent protein - coding genes, meaning that whole - exome sequencing measures the genetic alterations focused on a small but very important fraction of the genome (as opposed to techniques of whole genome sequencing, which measures every nucleotide across the entire genome, regardless of whether these genes are expressed or silent).

The Amur tiger genome was predicted to contain 20,226 protein - coding genes and 2,935 non-coding RNAs, and was enriched in olfactory receptor sensitivity, amino - acid transport, and metabolic - related genes, among others.

The more powerful one occurred within a stretch of DNA, or locus, that contains the HCP5 gene, which codes for a human endogenous retrovirus — a genetic fossil of a virus that wove itself into human chromosomes long ago but no longer produces infectious progeny.

Five of these regions contain no protein - coding genes and may thus include structural or regulatory elements.

The DNA contains some 1260 genes, 50 of which code for functions never before seen in viruses, including DNA repair and translating mRNA into protein.

Scientists used to think it contained 100,000 protein - coding genes, but it turns out to have just 20,000, and researchers don't actually know the function of many of them.

The protein - coding genes do not contain any surprising mutations that would cause disease.

Epigenome refers to a «hidden» genetic code, not the one that contains information for building protein molecules, but the one that determines when those genes are turned on or off.

Release 1.0 contains 20,486 high confidence protein - coding genes.

The pvuII - Dra1 SV2gpt fragment contains the SV40 origin of replication and coding sequences for the gpt gene.

It contains about 19,500 protein - coding genes and 1,850 non-coding RNAs, numbers that are very similar to the dog.

This CAGE dataset also contained many TSSs not associated with known protein - coding genes.

Researchers from the University of Chicago and the Beijing Institute of Genomics estimate that the tumor, about 3.5 centimeters in diameter, contained more than 100 million distinct mutations within the coding regions of its genes — thousands of times more than expected.

In it, he made the case that quantum physics governs the evolution of «gene molecules» containing the «code» for life.

As Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam (his first faculty position), he made a second notable discovery: that mammalian DNA contains introns, segments of genetic code that break up a gene into pieces.

In most cases the putative coding sequences of OR and V1R genes span a single exon and the additional exons contains only UTRs.

Release 1.0 contains 15,419 high confidence protein - coding genes; alternatively spliced transcripts derived from 992 genes add an additional 1,370 proteins yielding a total of 16,789 predicted proteins.

Every cell in a Joshua tree contains the tree's complete genomic code, but not every gene in that code is expressed in every cell — genes that are important in a leaf cell are not necessarily the same ones that are important in a flower cell, or a root cell.

In fact, genes contain coding and non-coding regions that are arranged in sequence like a zebra's stripes.

In conjunction with these strains, several cre transgenic strains have been created where BAC engineering was used to insert an intron containing cre or creERT2 cassettes, followed by a polyadenylation sequence to terminate transcription of the fusion transcript immediately after the recombinase gene, into the BAC vector at the initiating ATG codon in the first coding exon of the gene.

The genome contains an estimated 20,470 protein - coding genes.

The MLPH gene codes for a protein called melanophilin, which is responsible for transporting and fixing melanin - containing cells.

The Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) is a region of the genome that contains genes that code for a group of cell surface proteins known as Dog leukocyte antigens (DLA).

As it turns out, the octopus genome is almost as large as a human's and actually contains more protein - coding genes: 33,000, compared with fewer than 25,000 in humans.