Once inside the cell, it can interfere with bacterial cell signal transduction and
gene transcription processes.
Not exact matches
The epigenetic impairments reflect changes that increase accessibility of chromatin, a
process that enhances
gene transcription, suggesting the impairments play an important role in addiction behavior.
PRMT1 is involved in a number of genetic
processes including
gene transcription, DNA repair and signaling.
«Our lab took part in analysing the group of RNA or transcriptome, that results from
transcription, the
process by which the instructions in the
genes are read.
The researchers have compared various
processes involved in
gene expression, such as
gene transcription and chromatin modification, and have repeated this in different tissues and cell types from both humans and mice.
When a
gene is switched on, one of its strands is copied into the related chemical RNA, a
process known as
transcription.
Vitamin A and vitamin D are precursors to hormones that influence biological
processes by entering the nucleus of a cell, binding to DNA, and altering the
transcription of certain
genes.
Histones are proteins vital for
gene regulation, and histone modifications are central to regulation of many chromosome - related
processes, including DNA replication,
transcription and repair.
Disease
processes often begin with mutations in the
transcription factor, or in the DNA they bind to inside the nucleus of cells to regulate the complex interplay of
genes needed for a healthy functioning body.
In most cases, the
genes responsible for these
processes are known as «
transcription factors» — meaning that they are responsible for turning other
genes on and off.
Jones, 62, is an expert in
transcription elongation, a
process that controls the expression of HIV and cancer
genes; she has been at the Salk since 1986.
Rutgers University scientists have discovered the three - dimensional structure of a
gene - specific
transcription activation complex, providing the first structural and mechanistic description of the
process cells use to turn on, or activate, specific
genes in response to changes in cell type, developmental state and environment.
These include proteins which control important
processes in the cells, for example the
transcription factors which activate
genes for the production of new proteins.
«The paper provides a dazzling snapshot of the
process of
transcription activation — the
process whereby a
gene is turned on in response to an instructive signal from the environment,» said Ann Hochschild, professor of microbiology and immunobiology at Harvard Medical School, who also was not part of the study.
At that point, a particular type of protein called a
transcription activator can kick - start the molecular
process by which a
gene gets turned on.
Active
genes produce molecular messages called RNA through a
process called
transcription.
In the Nature papers, the researchers compared
gene transcription, chromatin modification and other
processes that control
gene activity in a wide range of mouse and human tissues and cell types.
The therapy consists in injecting into the hippocampus - a region of the brain essential to memory
processing - a
gene which causes the production of a protein blocked in patients with Alzheimer's, the «Crtc1» (CREB regulated
transcription coactivator - 1).
A major
process of
gene expression is
transcription, by which RNA is synthesized according to a DNA template.
Apart from that, the team has managed to show that the ANKRD55 proteins reside in the nuclei of the cells, and that suggests that they could play a significant role in the specific
processes that take place in the cell nucleus such as
gene transcription.
When a given
gene needs to be transcribed to create new proteins, its promoter region must be unwrapped from the nucleosome so that it can be accessed by the factors involved in initiating the
transcription process.
In fact, they found that TGF - β halts both the
transcription of the p53
gene - the
process by which cellular machinery reads the DNA code for a
gene - and the subsequent
process by which the corresponding p53 protein is produced, known as translation.
CDK7 is also involved in the
process of
transcription, a vital step in
gene expression - the creation of proteins to carry out cell functions.
The three - dimensional organization of the genome represents a cell - type specific means to regulate
gene transcription; however, we currently lack a detailed understanding of the architectural changes that occur during the generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) due to the inherent inefficiency of the reprogramming
process [1].
10/10/2007 Researchers Reveal Repressor Protein Blocks Neural Stem Cell Development A protein known to repress
gene transcription at the molecular level in a variety of
processes also blocks embryonic neural stem cells from differentiating into neurons, according to a study by University of California, San Diego and Howard Hughes Me... More...
Control of plastid
gene expression: 3 ′ inverted repeats act as mRNA
processing and stabilizing elements, but do not terminate
transcription
But in a recent study, researchers described a balancing act that seems more counterintuitive than most: Bacterial cells prioritize
transcription — the
process of making RNA transcripts of
genes as the first step in protein production — over repairing double - strand breaks in their DNA.
Gene ontology (GO) analysis of
genes within 250 kb of a PORE sequence revealed enrichment in
processes such as
transcription regulator activity (p < 0.001), sex determination (p < 0.005), insulin receptor signaling (p < 0.001), development (p < 0.0005), and protein phosphorylation (p < 0.005).
This
process, known as
gene expression, begins with
transcription, in which a molecule called messenger RNA transfers the information in DNA out of the cell's nucleus and into the cytoplasm, where it is translated into amino acids that form proteins.
Heatmaps of the 50 concise clusters for All
Genes,
Transcription Factors and ESTs according to their timing of induction or suppression during the normal ES cell differentiation
process.
The resource provides services including:
processing of the samples (cells or tissues) to make high quality chromatin for ChIP, ChIP with a set of validated antibodies for histone marks (Promoter marks: H3K4me3 and H3K27me3, Enhancer marks: H3K4me1 and H3K27ac,
Gene body marks for
transcription activity: H3K36me3 and H3K79me2, and Heterochromatin mark: H3K9me3), ChIP with investigator preferred custom antibodies, and library preparation from ChIP DNA and multi-plexing for high - throughput DNA sequencing.
[9] This is achieved through
gene transcription which is followed by the
processes of translation and assembly of proteins into the contractile architecture.
Through
processes called
transcription and epigenetics, those critical
genes switch on to guide the
process.