Sentences with phrase «interacting cellular components»

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Their main aim is to understand how mitochondria interact with other cellular components to maintain physiological homeostasis, and how mitochondrial defects lead to pathological states.

The research team has been using NMR — a technique related to the one used in MRI body scanners and capable of visualising molecules at the smallest scales — to examine how small components of herpes virus help it to multiply by binding themselves with other large molecules; this produced images of a monkey herpes virus protein interacting with mouse cellular protein and viral RNA.

Environmental factors interact with the different subgenomes to modify the transcription of their component genes and to modulate the translation of protein products and their posttranslational modification, yielding changes in protein and cellular function and metabolism, and defining an intermediate phenotype.

«By identifying the most important cellular components that viruses hijack and re-wire, we can more intelligently design drugs that target the virus's weak points and where it interacts with the host.»