Sentences with phrase «key enzyme systems»

Iron is an integral component of hemoglobin, which transports oxygen from the lungs to all body cells, and is also part of key enzyme systems for energy production and metabolism.

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UC attorneys have argued that the move from prokaryotes to eukaryotes was obvious, and insisted that Zhang's lab's subsequent refinement of a key component in the CRISPR system — a variation of an enzyme known as Cas9 — also was obvious.

After discussing the idea with Doudna, they floated the concept by two key CRISPR researchers in Cambridge, Massachusetts: George Church at Harvard University and his former postdoc Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute, who had just published their own widely noticed Science papers showing that the CRISPR system could guide its bacterial enzyme, Cas9, to precisely target and cut DNA in human cells.

The symposium will focus on the roles of the major enzymes participating in metabolism of xenobiotics including carcinogens and drugs — the membrane monooxygenase systems containing cytochromes P450 — and highlight the key advances in their mechanisms of action at the molecular level.

Zinc is a key component in numerous vital enzymes and plays a role in the immune system.

It is incorporated into key enzymes involved in several metabolic pathways implicated in thyroid hormone metabolism; additionally, it plays an antioxidant role in the regulation of the immune system.