Sentences with phrase «gene for the protein»

Normal viruses carry genes for the proteins that are needed to make more viruses.

Sometime in the past 1,500 to 20,000 years, Y. pestis lost a set of genes for proteins called adhesins, which bind the bacteria to intestinal walls.

This group includes genes for proteins that influence the circulation of dopamine at the synapses between neurons — for example, proteins that clear away old messenger molecules so new ones can come through.

He took the plant gene for the protein and inserted it into yeast, then fed the modified yeast sugars and nutrients to stimulate fermentation.

Clare Wilson reports research on the relationship between genes for proteins that «carry bad cholesterol» and longevity (6 September, p...

They took a fairly benign strain of mousepox virus and added genes for proteins carried on the surface of mouse eggs.

Primarily, it turns on several genes for proteins that help the cells adapt to the lack of oxygen.

They identified a mutation in a fruit fly gene for a protein called S6 kinase, which helps control the production of ribosomes, the cell's protein - making machinery.

Efforts to tag endogenous genes for proteins in these compartments using CRISPR systems should strongly consider using moxFPs over standard FPs for the reasons listed above.

Before the Human Genome Project, biologists assumed that we would have at least 120,000 genes, one gene for every protein made in the body.

Tsai's group manipulated the gene for the protein p25, which has been implicated in several neurodegenerative diseases, so that it could be easily switched on and off.

The critter's secret weapon is an overactive version of the gene for a protein — Wnt10b — that regulates the formation of flab.

But when they tried to pinpoint the genes involved, something unexpected happened: they stumbled on C1q, a gene for a protein important in the body's immune system.

The trio also isolated the gene for this protein, called channelrhodopsin - 2 (ChR2).

They started by genetically engineering a nonreplicating form of the common cold virus, called adenovirus, to carry the gene for a protein called glial cell line - derived neurotrophic factor, or GDNF.

The company has isolated the gene for the protein and the application covers any route to synthesising the drug that relies on «recombinant DNA technology».

Two variants stood out, the most significant associated with the gene for GDF15 and the second with a gene for a protein called IGFBP7.

About 1 per cent of people of European descent are resistant to HIV, because they carry two copies of a mutation in the gene for a protein called CCR5.

The three Toxoplasma types have the gene for this protein, called MAF1, but only type I and III make the protein, the researchers found.

The vectors contain the gene for GFP spliced to the gene for the protein that is being tracked.

They synthesized the gene for this protein and inserted it into E. coli bacteria.

To boost the staying power of the engineered T cells, the UPenn group wants to use CRISPR to disrupt the gene for a protein called PD - 1.

The team knocked out the gene for a protein called nuclear receptor corepressor 1 (NCoR1) in the muscles of mice.

In a 2007 paper published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Poland and his colleagues reported that people who have mutations in a gene for a protein called SLAM produce 70 percent fewer antibodies after live measles inoculation than people without the mutation.

As part of this effort, Dr. Weinstein and his colleagues inserted a gene for a protein that turns green the cells that line the endothelium of selected embryonic veins and in the lymphatic system — the network of vessels through which immune cells travel in the body.

Like all mammals, the human genome has about 1000 genes for proteins that detect smells, or olfactory receptors.

One French study involving nonobese diabetics found that a version of a gene for a protein that transports zinc in the pancreas increased the risk of this disease.

All together, Zhulin and Wuichet identified 19 types of chemotaxis systems based on the combinations of proteins found, the locations of the genes for these proteins, and other parameters.

Brandis and Hughes changed many different codons and showed that changing even a single codon in the gene for this protein into any one of the alternative «synonymous» codons reduced the «fitness» of Salmonella.

He told the ANZAAS meeting that his group has created a myxoma virus that contains a gene for a protein on the surface of sperm, and another that includes a gene for a protein found in the coating of eggs.

The newly fingered SNP lies in a gene for a protein called LINGO1 that is present only in the brain and spinal cord — a distribution consistent with a role in neurological disorders, says neurologist Dietrich Haubenberger of the Medical University of Vienna in Austria, one of the study's authors.

For both targets, the researchers demonstrated that they could insert a gene for the protein luciferase, which emits light, in addition to turning off the existing genes.

Wanting to understand the relationship between CMG2 and collagen VI, the team developed double - knockout mice in which the genes for both proteins — CMG2 and collagen VI — had been deleted.

Team members Julie Nixon and John Samuelson of Harvard University found the 35 - base intron in the middle of the gene for a protein called ferredoxin.

Last year, a team led by Columbia University researcher Rando Allikmets reported that certain forms of a gene for a protein called factor H can increase a person's risk of age - related macular degeneration.

Humans carry a gene for a protein in cells called apolipoprotein E, which helps clear amyloid - beta from the brain by binding to it and breaking it down.

The team then modified the bacterial genome so that the regulatory DNA responsible for activating one of these genes was attached to a gene for a protein that glows when produced.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which predominantly strikes boys, is caused by a mutation in the gene for a protein called dystrophin that is essential for proper muscle function.

The Great Ormond Street team was able to use donor T - cells to treat Layla because in addition to the CAR gene, they used gene editing to disable the gene for the protein that recognises other cells as foreign, thereby preventing the donor cells from attacking Layla's healthy cells.

Instead, the company inserts a replacement copy of the gene, using gene editing to snip the DNA helix of liver cells in a specific place near the promotor, or on - off switch, for the gene for a protein called albumin.

The gene for a protein called beta secretase 1, which thought to be involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease

«These kids accumulate repeats in a gene for a protein called frataxin that mitochondria, the cell's powerhouse, need to process energy.

Caused by a mutation in the gene for a protein called huntingtin, the disease damages brain cells so that people with Huntington's progressively lose their ability to walk, talk, think and reason.

Consistency — how much does the gene for this protein vary from person to person?

Hemophilia B is caused by defects in the gene for a protein called clotting factor IX (FIX).

The sequence of amino acids in a protein molecule is defined my the sequence of the gene for that protein.