Sentences with phrase «containing cytochromes»

The symposium will focus on the roles of the major enzymes participating in metabolism of xenobiotics including carcinogens and drugs — the membrane monooxygenase systems containing cytochromes P450 — and highlight the key advances in their mechanisms of action at the molecular level.

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But in 2013, a research scientist in El - Naggar's laboratory, Sahand Pirbadian, discovered that these projections, referred to as «nanowires,» were actually extensions of the cell membrane covered in cytochromes — proteins containing iron that facilitate electron transport.

This research project is the first study to directly localize the outer membrane - associated cytochromes with extracellular polymeric substance (EPS), as a complex structure, which contains UO2 nanoparticles.

(1988) containing the papers presented at a meeting organized by the two of us and held in Rome and in the Convent of Santa Teresa (Caprarola) where the structure - function relationships and the physiopathology of cytochrome oxidase were discussed in depth.

Cytochromes are electron - transporting protein pigments concerned with cell respiration that contain an iron - containing molecule called heme, allied to that of hemoglobin.

Once ingested, acrylamide can be detoxified in the body if it is processed through our cytochrome P450 enzyme system and converted into glycidamide, or if it is hooked together with the sulfur - containing, antioxidant molecule called glutathione.

First, grapefruit contains a compound called naringenin, which inactivates an enzyme (cytochrome P450 3A4) in the small intestine that metabolizes statin drugs.