Sentences with phrase «essential genes involved»

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«However, recent work has shown that at least some of the fungal partners in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses lack the genes for enzymes involved in the major pathway of lipid biosynthesis, and are therefore unable to produce certain essential fatty acids,» Gutjahr explains.

The protein studied in the mold is part of a larger family of proteins also found in humans and involved in many essential biological processes including gene regulation and fatty acid metabolism.

A new study involving roundworms appears to have isolated one gene — a transcriptional factor (or gene that controls the regulation of other genes in the genome)-- that appears to be an essential member of the pathway that translates reduced caloric intake into a longer life span.

The Bag1 gene, for example, codes for a protein that in humans is involved in inhibiting an essential natural process called «programmed cell death.»

In a non-disease state, TDP - 43 is an important protein involved in various aspects of the metabolism of RNA, a molecule essential in various biological roles in the regulation and expression of genes.

In addition, A-to-I RNA editing is involved in control of the expression and function of microRNA (miRNA), which is a small RNA essential for the RNAi mediated gene silencing mechanism.

This SNP is in a gene involved in many of the processes that one would expect to be perturbed in patients with essential tremor.

Another study, published in Current Biology, highlights the complexity of the regulatory systems involved in organism reproduction through the study of a gene that is essential for meiosis in vertebrates, but not Drosophila.

Plays an essential role in metabolic reprogramming in response to dietary availability through coordination of the expression of a wide array of genes involved in glucose and fatty acid metabolism.