Sentences with phrase «engineered ubiquitin»

«If this same alternative ubiquitination process occurs in humans, perhaps an engineered ubiquitin - editing protein could be developed to target and control processes critical to the development of many diseases, including infection,» Luo said.

To achieve this, the research team devised a system that expresses two genetically engineered ubiquitin molecules at once.

«We are also working on an engineered ubiquitin that targets a corn virus responsible for destroying large swaths of corn fields in North America, with colleagues in Manitoba,» says Zhang.

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Zhang and colleagues engineered the human ubiquitin protein into a new form that paralyses a key MERS enzyme, stopping the virus from replicating.