Sentences with phrase «important role of proteins»

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As for the peanut butter — it's a good source of protein, Vitamin E (which is also an antioxidant), magnesium (good for your bones and heart — helping the muscle relax between beats) and Vitamin B6 (important for healthy hair, skin, liver, eyes and it plays an important role in the production of serotonin and dopamine which are needed for nerve communication).

Every bite of turkey is an excellent source of high quality protein, a nutrient that is key for overall good health; it plays an important role in building, maintaining and repairing your body every day.

The dairy industry can work towards ending hunger and achieving food security (SDG2) and contribute to healthy lives (SDG3), because of the important role of milk in the provision of energy, protein and micronutrients and through investments that reduce the negative impact of the dairy industry on public health.

Vital in every aspect of our body, the «building blocks», also known as essential and non-essential amino acids, which make up protein play important roles in helping our body to stay healthy and function properly.

Protein is really important because it plays a number of structural roles in the body (including the maintenance of your muscle mass).

The rest of the complex goody bag of proteins, carbohydrates, lipids and other compounds play all sorts of other important roles in reproduction — not the least of which is a way for the males to prevent the female from mating again for about three to four days, says Morehouse.

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When looking for genes that might play important roles in the metabolism of healthy and cancerous liver cells, Wang and his colleagues became interested in a gene called SLC13A5, which produces a protein that transports citrate into cells.

In the search for better treatments for this disease the protein Sclerostin, which plays an important role in bone metabolism, is of major interest.

In the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the scientists demonstrate that the protein ZEB1 plays a particularly important role: It limits the production of the binding proteins E-cadherin and Epcam — both in the fish embryo and in the tumor cell.

«Because mitochondrial dysfunction has been proposed to play an important role in the pathogenesis of Huntington's disease,» said Qi, «we investigated the binding proteins of mutant huntingtin on mitochondria.»

However, in the past decade scientists realized that exosomes play important roles in many biological functions through capsuling and delivering molecular messages in the form of nucleic acids and proteins from the donor cells to affect the functions of nearby or distant cells.

The Salk researchers discovered that deletion of the WRN gene leads to heterochromatin disorganization, pointing to an important role for the WRN protein in maintaining heterochromatin.

The high induction of that protein suggested to scientists that it could be playing an important biological role, said Elton Gonçalves, a former UF / IFAS doctoral student in the plant molecular and cellular biology program.

Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University scientists have found exciting, new functions of the protein angiogenin (ANG) that play a significant role in the regulation of blood cell formation, important in bone marrow transplantation and recovery from radiation - induced bone marrow failure.

The protein itself has been known to researchers for some time as a result of research on zebrafish, where it plays an important role in the healing process following damage to the spinal cord.

Moffitt Cancer Center researchers have found that a protein called TBK1 plays an important role in the process of cell division, especially at a stage called mitosis.

The paper focuses on two key molecular players in the story of influenza infection: a human protein called TRIM25, which was recently discovered to play an important role in the human immune response to flu infection; and a protein called NS1 present in all strains of the influenza A virus and shown to bind TRIM25 to keep it from doing its job.

Using a nuclear protein expressed in follicle stem cells (FSCs), the researchers found that castor, which plays an important role in specifying which types of brain cells are produced during embryonic development, also helps maintain FSCs throughout the life of the animal.

In infection diseases, membrane fouling, interaction with bacteria, as well as in rapid healing of wounds for example, the way proteins interact with a surface plays an important role.

Importantly, because the Ggamma13 protein plays important roles in other parts of the body, the Ggamma13 «knockout» was confined exclusively to smell receptor cells.

In the first, principal investigator Glass and colleagues investigated a pair of related transcriptional repressors called Rev - Erb - alpha and Rev - Erb - beta (proteins with important roles in regulating the circadian rhythm in many cell types) in mouse macrophages.

But new research conducted in his lab suggests tRNA dynamics may play an important role in modulating the types of proteins in a cell.

Ribonucleic acid or RNA is a nucleic acid polymer consisting of nucleotide monomers that plays several important roles in the processes that translate genetic information from deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) into protein products;

«Those studies, however, were not conducted to address the role of this process in the regulation of the amyloidogenic protein, which is an important contributor to Type 2 diabetes.»

They further established that the protein produced by the BRCA 1 gene binds with a protein known to play an important role in the metabolism of fat in muscle cells known as Acetyl - CoA carboxylase or ACC.

«The biochemical mechanisms of these proteins have been known for years from experiments involving purified protein and DNA, and that's very important, but in this new work we've clarified these proteins» roles in living cells,» said co-senior author Christopher P. Selby, PhD, research assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UNC.

The team discovered that the TCL1 protein played a key role in increasing glycolysis by activating a different metabolic pathway that is important for the self - renewal of stem cells.

«The inflammasome in turn activates the enzyme caspase - 1, which then produces two proteins (IL - 1β and IL - 18) that play important roles in the GI tract, including activation of immune cells, induction of antimicrobial peptides, and regulation of epithelial cell proliferation.»

It plays an important role in cell division, which is controlled by the synchronised destruction of regulatory proteins.

An understanding of motor proteins is important to medical research because of their fundamental role in complex cellular life.

Proteasomes play an important role in the degradation of proteins that regulate the cell cycle, thereby regulating cell growth.

A study of gene expression in leukemia cells has identified an RNA binding protein that plays an important role in driving the development of cancer.

«Food intake seems crucial in determining the protein levels of p53 in liver, and p53 also plays an important role in normal liver metabolism,» says Prof. Schupp.

Experiments in mice suggested an important role in long - term memory for CREB, one of many so - called transcription factors, proteins that switch genes on and off.

The scientists specifically examined proteins on the surface of the naive CD4 + T cells because these proteins play an important role in the cell development and mediate the corresponding responses to stimuli from the environment.

In addition, the strain isolated from lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic had rare mutations in two viral proteins: the CDV - H protein, which binds to the host cell receptor (called SLAM CD 150) and therefore plays an important role to facilitate viral entry into host cells, and the CDV - V protein, which enables the virus to manipulate the innate immune response of the host.

These protein crystals are held together by hydrogen bonds, one of the weakest chemical bonds, and have an important role in defining the mechanical properties of silk.

In a non-disease state, TDP - 43 is an important protein involved in various aspects of the metabolism of RNA, a molecule essential in various biological roles in the regulation and expression of genes.

These proteins play an important role in the drug resistance of tumour cells and bacteria.

They speculate that the dynamic nature of the «fragile» nucleosome plays an important role in increasing access of the proteins initiating the transcription to the promoter.

«Method developed by biomedical scientists could help in treatment of several diseases: Researchers» method measures the efficiency in real time of a processing pathway that plays an important role in protein formation in cells.»

Her research also has highlighted a central role for the localization of RNAs to synapses, where their synthesis into protein is regulated by neuronal activity, and that the process of local protein synthesis is likely to play a particularly important role in autism spectrum disorders.

Toll / interleukin -1 receptor (TIR) domain - containing proteins play important roles in defense against pathogens in both animals and plants, connecting the immunity signaling pathways via a chain of specific protein - protein interactions.

Professor McKee believes that a better understanding of the role of proteins in the calcification events that drive eggshell hardening and strength through biomineralization could have important implications for food safety.

Egr proteins play a role in the regulation of synaptic plasticity, learning and memory [76, 77] and Egr3 in particular is very important for the processing of both short term and long term hippocampal dependent memory [78].

Using blood collected from elderly persons aged up to one hundred and demonstrating no cognitive impairment, the researchers isolated precisely those immune cells whose antibodies are able to identify toxic beta - amyloid plaques but not the amyloid precursor protein that is present throughout the human body and that presumably plays an important role in the growth of nerve cells.

Michael Croft, Ph.D., and his team focus on a number of molecules that are members of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) family, a group of proteins believed to play important roles in the ability of the immune system to guard the body against harmful microorganisms.

My research attempts to integrate these methods in order to investigate important questions in evolution: reconstructing ancestral protein sequences and determining the functional roles of proteins existing in organisms early in the history of life.

I became an eye researcher completely by accident while trying to unravel the role of a protein called Ankyrin in forming biological important membrane domains in cells, in this case, the photoreceptor.