Sentences with phrase «host cell enzyme»

The Dengue virus contains discretely folded RNA structures that confer the ability to resist a powerful host cell enzyme and produce a disease - inducing noncoding RNA.

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In a host cell, the viruses have the enzymes needed to wrangle all 20 standard amino acids, the building blocks of life.

The viruses also exploit an enzyme that cells use to destroy RNA to instead produce short stretches of RNA that, among other things, may help the virus avoid the immune system of its host.

The new study shows that the synthetic compound is capable of inhibiting the activities of several DNA - processing enzymes, including the «integrase» used by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) to insert its genome into that of its host cell.

The microbe swims freely through the blood and feeds off its host, behaving like the single - celled animal it is, but it produces enzymes and lipids thought to be exclusive to plants.

Thus, the two small phages characterized for their lysis strategy, Qβ and the small DNA phage φX174, effect host lysis by targeting different enzymes in the multistep, universally conserved pathway of cell wall biosynthesis.

«Importantly, fighting a pathogen by hitting an enzyme from the host cell is likely to slow the emergence of drug resistance, because the pathogen can not easily escape through the selection of target mutations,» Professor Doerig said.

Massive lateral transfer of genes encoding plant cell wall - degrading enzymes to the mycoparasitic fungus Trichoderma from its plant - associated hosts

Animal experiments Cytosolic and secreted peptidoglycan - degrading enzymes in Drosophila respectively control local and systemic immune responses to microbiota — Bernard Charroux — Cell Host & Microbe

By teasing apart the structure of an enzyme vital to the parasites that cause toxoplasmosis and malaria, Whitehead Institute scientists have identified a potentially «drugable» target that could prevent parasites from entering and exiting host cells.

«Our study focused on a class of enzymes called methyltransferases, which have emerged as key regulators of HIV latency,» explained Melanie Ott, MD, PhD, a senior investigator at Gladstone and lead author of the study published in the scientific journal Cell Host & Microbe.

When our digestive systems are sick or damaged, the host of cells, bacteria, and enzymes that break down food and absorb nutrients, are unable to perform their important functions.

This enzyme allows the flu virus to bud from the host cell in which it was created and then happily pass through the mucus of the respiratory tract to any cell in the tract it wishes to infect.

In order to colonize the urogenital tract, T. vaginalis must be able to adhere to the host's cells, which it is able to do by producing enzymes that degrade the surfaces of the host's cells.