Sentences with phrase «gene regulation started»
The modern study of gene regulation started in the 1950s, but researchers only started to unravel the complex array of histone modifications that fine - tune chromatin control of gene expression 20 years ago.
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Moving from biochemistry to molecular biology, Palatnik started investigating the role of microRNAs — tiny RNA molecules that are important in gene regulation in most life forms — in the development of the plant Arabidopsis.
While the study represents a strong start for understanding how eQTLs affect gene regulation and expression, Engelhardt pointed out that she and her colleagues still do not have enough samples to understand trans - eQTLs as deeply as they would like.
Regulation is everything: It's important not to start up genes related to puberty during, say, infancy, or to activate genes that are related to eye color in the bladder.
Further studies are needed to determine whether the specific use of transcription starting points is a widely disseminated mechanism for gene regulation.
But alternative start codons account for a few of all genes and are usually an indication of complex regulation.
Professor Dockrell and her group are investigating mechanisms that regulate the production of immune - related proteins, starting from gene regulation (epigenetics), gene expression (transcriptomics), cell phenotypes (flow cytometry) and finally protein release.