Sentences with phrase «embedded in their cell membranes»

Alivisatos's nanotechnology lab is engineering quantum dots that could be embedded in the cell membranes of neurons.

In mammals, proteins called ion channels embedded in the cell membrane translate temperature information into electrical signals that activate nerve cells.

Cell - surface receptors are proteins embedded in the cell membrane.

They are like natural proteins, including those that embed themselves in cell membranes, and can be designed to have very specific forms and functions.

«We are next interested in determining if Bcl - xL's method of self - regulation also occurs when it is embedded in a cell membrane, where Bcl - xL would be found in a normal cell,» Marassi says.

Receiver proteins bind to the signals and then pass them to large proteins called enzymes embedded in the cell membrane (light blue and green squares).

External cues act on tyrosine kinase proteins embedded in the cell membrane to induce a cascade of signals with a vital role in regulating cell proliferation.

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In the living world, transmembrane proteins are found embedded in the membrane of all cells and cellular organelleIn the living world, transmembrane proteins are found embedded in the membrane of all cells and cellular organellein the membrane of all cells and cellular organelles.

Because they act while embedded within the cellular membrane, transmembrane proteins have proven to be more difficult to study than proteins that operate in the watery solution that make up the cells» cytoplasm or in the extracellular fluid.

Changes to the properties of the lipid bilayer component of the cell membrane can alter the function of proteins embedded in the membrane — proteins that regulate critical functions such as transport of materials in and out of the cell and communication with other cells.

What we've shown is that the rate at which protons enter and leave is high enough to power the growth of cells via proteins embedded in the membrane.

The gene produces a protein that is embedded in the membrane of cells, and is known to bind anthrax toxins internalizing them into the cell where they exert their action.

A team of biophysicists from the State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.) at Buffalo used magnetic nanoparticles to control heat - activated protein gates called ion channels embedded in the membranes of nerve cells, allowing the researchers to stimulate a simple reflex in nematode worms at will.

The researchers then devised an assay that deployed native basement membrane to separate cancer cells on one side and fibroblasts embedded in collagen on the other.