Sentences with phrase «engineer particular proteins»

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While teams used a variety of engineering strategies to enhance their cells» chemotactic ability, the most successful cells were an adapted version of Dicty with increased activity of a particular protein, Ric8, that enhanced G - protein signaling, helping chemotaxis in shallow chemical gradients.

Nerve cells are engineered with light - sensitive proteins that allow researchers to send or stop sending nerve impulses when they are exposed to a particular color of light.

In particular, we show that repeat proteins are excellent monomeric programmable building blocks that can be triggered to associate into a range of morphologies and can readily be engineered as stimuli - responsive biofunctional materials.

They blow up because Maselko's technology instructs the cell to generate an immense amount of proteins caused by that particular gene — but only when the engineered yeast mate with wild versions.