Sentences with phrase «encoding immune system proteins»

In the absence of functional annotation, genes encoding immune system proteins can thus be difficult to identify, as homology - based approaches generally can not detect lineage - specific genes.

Not exact matches

In each case, the mRNA encodes viral proteins that infected cells would normally present to activate the immune system and beat back an infection.

A rare and improbable mutation in a protein encoded by an influenza virus renders the virus defenseless against the body's immune system.

Women prefer the smell of T - shirts worn by men whose major histocompatability complex genes — which encode the proteins that make up an important part of our immune system — are different from their own, and vice versa.

The MHC is a family of genes found in all vertebrates that encodes vital proteins in the immune defense system.

Especially critical are those genomic regions that encode viral proteins recognized by the human immune system.

The sequence, called an ITAM (immunoreceptor tyrosine - based activation motif), encodes a piece of protein that can by itself signal immune system cells to multiply and go to work.

But human leukocyte antigens — a group of genes that encode proteins essential to the human immune system — in the samples showed that a few individuals had a type, or allele, found among only Native Americans.

The malarial genes under the most intense selection pressure — those with the most variation, generated over a millennium - long cat - and - mouse game with the immune system's antibody response — are the ones that encode the identifying proteins on the surface of the parasite.

One pioneer parasite will express a brand new var gene that encodes a PfEMP1 protein that the immune system has not seen before.

One pioneer parasite will express a brand new var gene that encodes a PfEMP1 protein that the immune system has not seen before and therefore has no specific antibodies against.