Sentences with phrase «host genes activated»

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«We have identified the molecular mechanisms by which the Tat protein made by HIV interacts with the host cell to activate or repress several hundred human genes,» said Dr. Iván D'Orso, Assistant Professor of Microbiology at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study.

Tony Trewavas, Steve Smith and colleagues at the University of Edinburgh have endowed three types of plants with a foreign «glow» gene which is activated when the host plant is stressed in some way, perhaps by a gust of wind.

The researchers went into this study expecting to find that the microbes signaled the host to open up areas of chromatin to activate gene expression in the gut.

A novel way of approaching protection - based therapeutics for glaucoma should derive from evidence accumulating over two decades in stroke and cardiac arrest: That simultaneously activating a variety of self - defense responses in cells with stressful «conditioning» stimuli induces the expression of a host of genes that promote cell survival.

Usually, the activated gene immediately kills its host cells, which (self - defeatingly for the mutation) puts a stop to the cancer.

Hundreds of studies have indicated that practicing this diet for several years can help fight a host of potential causes of inflammation, help maintain a healthy protein turnover rate — a process critical to slowing the aging process — and it even activates an incredibly powerful anti-aging gene.