Sentences with phrase «into smaller molecules»

Hypoallergenic diets contain protein sources that have been broken down (hydrolyzed) into smaller molecules that are much less likely to produce an immune reaction than larger intact protein molecules.

Carbohydrates can be broken down into smaller molecules.

That's because Aspergillus and other micro-organisms used in fermentation of soy miso can help metabolize proteins, carbohydrates, and fats found in soybeans and transform them into smaller molecules that may be more easily digested.

Collagen peptides are broken down into smaller molecules for better absorption.

Then they release a protein that breaks the plastic down into smaller molecules that the microbe can munch on.

Now a team reports in Nature that the mood - lifting effect may not be caused by the drug itself, but by one of the products formed when the body breaks the drug down into smaller molecules.

Autophagy involves breaking down the cell's parts — its protein - making, power - generating, and transport systems — into small molecules.

Chemotype Evolution thus provides an efficient and systematic approach for converting peptides into small molecules, a goal that has remained a significant challenge in drug discovery.

As the drug enters your system, it breaks down itself into small molecules that is enough to pass through your body's cell mainly because as mentioned earlier, every cell in our body have receptors for steroids called androgen receptor which is where the steroid molecules bind.

As the drug enters your system, it breaks down itself into small molecules that is enough to pass through your body's cell mainly because as mentioned earlier, every cell in our body have receptors for steroids called

Researchers focused on two species of bacteria that break up dietary fibers from food into small molecules called short - chain fatty acids.

In dogs with normal sugar metabolism, glucose in the lens is metabolized by an enzyme called hexokinase into small molecules that diffuse out of the lens.

Not exact matches

For all entities, elementary particles, atoms, molecules, and so on, are organic unities, each integrating into itself organic unities smaller in size with the differences in size being unproblematical between each level, above or below.11

In fact, while some composting methods have been shown to degrade certain pesticides, heavy metals are an elemental contaminant that does not degrade into smaller, less harmful molecules during the composting process.

To use fructose for energy, the body needs to convert it into another type of simple sugar called glucose or into other smaller molecules.

The pH during one of the reactions was a bit too low, causing the drug to extrude a single small molecule of propionic acid, which transformed it from a powerful narcotic into a poison that laid waste to the brain's dopamine receptors.

MRIs work by tapping into an astonishing phenomenon: When placed in a powerful magnetic field, the hydrogen atoms in water molecules behave like small bar magnets.

Some reactions slow down, but others actually speed up — especially reactions that involve joining small molecules into larger ones.

«If we fed the fish a specific type of fat, our technique allowed us to determine into what molecules these lipids were reassembled after they were broken down in the small intestine and in which organs and cells these molecules ended up,» Farber explained.

Now, researchers have demonstrated that two iron - containing small - molecule catalysts can help turn certain types of amino acids — the building blocks of peptides and proteins — into an array of potential new forms, even when part of a larger peptide, while preserving a crucial aspect of their chemistry: chirality, or «handedness.»

A panel of small molecules that inhibit Zika virus infection, including one that stands out as a potent inhibitor of Zika viral entry into relevant human cell types, was discovered by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Alpha and beta amylase enzymes found in malted barley (also found in your mouth and small intestine) are used to break down the starch present in the kernel into maltose and maltotriose, which are chains of two or three linear glucose molecules, respectively.

Just because a molecule appears to heighten attention in a small study on a couple dozen people doesn't mean it will have any effect if it's mixed into a drink and given to someone at random at an unknown dose.

Previous research has shown that the capsid is stable, has a large cavity for small molecules or proteins to pack into, and is easy to produce with high purity.

Our team is currently developing methods that can be used to screen small molecule inhibitors of EDD1 and also looking into how the regulation of TIP60 levels can be translated into therapeutic advances for the treatment of viral - mediated cancers such as cervical cancer.

As «big pharma is actively seeking out investigations to do reformulations of existing small molecules into nanoparticles,» notes McNeil, there has been an uptick in career opportunities in both big and small firms in this sector, including startups.

Ethanol is such a small, simple molecule — just two carbon atoms, six hydrogens, and a spare oxygen — that it pours directly out of the stomach and small intestine into the bloodstream.

Usually, in small - molecule junctions, electrons «pushed» through the junction by the applied bias make the leap continuously, from one electrode into the other, so that the number of electrons on the molecule at each instant of time is not well - defined.

The researchers created a new gel, based on small molecules which self - assemble into nanofibers which could interact with a variety of anti-inflammatory, painkiller drugs, including iburofen and naproxen.

Known as the blood - brain barrier, cells that line the brain and spinal cord are tightly packed, making it difficult for anything besides very small molecules to cross from the bloodstream into the central nervous system.

Published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, the researchers, in collaboration with co-senior author Lei Stanley Qi, PhD, at Stanford University, successfully identified two small molecules that significantly improve the insertion of new genetic information into a cell's DNA.

If it can be developed into a successful technology, the new material might help remove from the water supply small organic molecules such as Bisphenol A (BPA), a byproduct of some plastic manufacturing that has been linked to environmental damage and health risks.

«Small molecules are much easier to make than larger compounds, they are easier to get into cells and their potential for getting into the brain is higher,» he said.

This small protein molecule contains a loop which fits, like a key in a lock, into the ion channel proteins found on nerve cell membranes, which are used to transport sodium and potassium ions in and out of the cell.

A riboswitch is a short piece of RNA that can fold into different structures, depending on whether or not a small messenger molecule is binds to it.

To this aim, the researchers incorporated molecules into the scaffolds that are known as the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and that presented small peptides derived from viral proteins to T cells.

Rhodes's plan of attack: «These small molecules diffuse into the blood and the breath, and the pattern can be recognized.»

So to garner enough iron to survive, bacteria secrete small molecules called siderophores to seek out iron in the environment and bring it back into the cell through siderophore - specific receptors.

«We were making small, easily synthesized, programmable molecules» — molecules designed and synthesized with parts that control their behavior — «which assembled on the nanoscale into highly functional materials,» Smith says.

By using as sources supersonic jets of hydrogen or helium containing small concentrations of heavier molecules we have been able to obtain molecular beams with kinetic energies of the heavy molecules well into the range above I electron volt.

A kind of molecular Venus flytrap made by a group of American chemists can entice smaller molecules into its central cavity and then flex shut, trapping them inside.

New research into Rett syndrome therapeutics suggests that a small molecule already reported to improve respiratory problems associated with the disease may also improve spatial memory and motor skill defects.

But when cells undergo stress — anything from heat to starvation or infection — proteins and ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules can clump into stress granules, which are free of enclosing membranes and often form small globs akin to hair gel suspended in a tub of water.

turned into 10 years of systematic research to identify the enzyme PLK4 as a promising therapeutic target and develop a small molecule inhibitor to block it,» says Dr. Mak, Director of The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network.

It contains two essential parts, a small RNA molecule called a microRNA (miRNA) which guides RISC to its mRNA target; and a much larger component into which the guide RNA fits, a protein called Argonaute, which, Joshua - Tor showed in 2004, actually performs the «slicing up» of the mRNA.

Lignocellulosic waste such as sawdust or straw can be used to produce biofuel — but only if the long cellulose and xylan chains can be successfully broken down into smaller sugar molecules.

«During this step, molecules are dismantled into smaller fragments and their molecular weights are identified,» Böcker explains.

«There has been a lot of work on Wnt signaling pathways, for example, so there are a lot of small - molecule drugs that could be tested to trigger a stem cell to mature into a neuron.»

In most animals, the main job of the stomach is to break down large food molecules into smaller ones, so that they can be absorbed into the blood more easily.

The 24 - h sunlight during the Arctic summer may help the microbes to break up oil molecules into smaller pieces.