Sentences with phrase «like human proteins»

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Unlike wheat or rice (which are low in lysine), and like oats, quinoa contains a balanced set of essential amino acids for humans, making it a complete protein source, unusual among plant foods (Wikipedia, 2011; (note to students reading: this is not an appropriate source for academic papers!)-RRB-.

Let's not sugarcoat it: most women humans buy nutritional supplements like protein powders because they want to look better and / or feel better.

The reason for this seems to be insulin - like growth factor (IGF), a protein that is released by the liver of all animals (humans included) in response to growth hormone.

They are the building blocks of every structure in human skin; vital skin proteins like collagen, elastin, lipids and all cellular tissues are made from amino acids.

For example, the researchers found that human milk contained significantly higher levels of milk proteins that help in digestion of fat - like compounds; slow protein digestion; and potentially increase the absorption of iron, vitamin B - 12, and vitamin D.

Degenerative brain diseases like mad cow disease (officially known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), scrapie in sheep, and vCJD in humans are thought to be caused by prions, misfolded versions of a normal cellular protein called PrPC.

The new drug - like compounds discovered by Vogel and her co-authors offer hope that using a computer - generated P - gp model, explained here http://bit.ly/1LVmR7a, developed to accurately mimic the physical, chemical and biological functions of the protein in the human body, will speed up the drug discovery process and work in real life as well.

The drug - like compounds can be modified and developed into medicines that target a protein in the human body that is responsible for chemotherapy resistance in cancers, said biochemist Pia D. Vogel, lead author on the scientific paper reporting the discovery.

«This reaction is interesting as close relatives of this protein, known as homologs have also been found in animals — ranging from invertebrates like the horseshoe crab to humans — where they play a role in the defence against bacteria,» continues Künzler.

«This enabled us to show for the first time what uromodulin, the most abundant protein in human urine, looks like in detail,» says Professor Jovine.

C. elegans is a microscopic worm that like humans highly expresses a family of proteins in the nervous system called ADARs — adenosine deaminases that act on RNA — a family that includes ADR - 1.

Lean beef can be enjoyed as the predominant protein source in a DASH - like diet, along with fruits, vegetables and low - fat dairy, to effectively help lower blood pressure in healthy individuals, the researchers report in the Journal of Human Hypertension.

Li's team studied samples of a fruit - fly derived version of Rumi in complex with a Notch «surrogate» - a human protein with a Notch - like fold - that were provided by Haltiwanger.

Yeasts, like humans, are eukaryotes: They have complex DNA packaged in chromosomes and riddled with introns (pieces of DNA that don't contribute to the final protein) and «junk DNA» with no known purpose.

None of the proteins protect against HIV - 2, which came to us from apes like HIV - 1 did, she says, but humans have apparently fended off nearly 40 other monkey retroviruses, so our innate immunity «wasn't quite as bad as you thought.»

We already knew that E. coli can grip to human cells using hair - like appendages that have tiny protein hooks on their tips, but until now no one had worked out the structure of this protein, called FimH, or how it interacts with human cells.

«We were interested in looking for the increased presence of these proteins, not just in the psoriasis - like skin inflammation of the mouse, but more importantly, we needed to know how the increased presence of these proteins translated to human psoriasis,» Ward said.

The DNA in a human cell is 2 yards long and wraps around millions of bead - like histone proteins to fit inside the cell's nucleus.

This accomplice, the researchers say, allows the protein to cause disorders like «mad cow» disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep, and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (CJD) in humans.

The junction moves from the front to the rear of the protozoan, probably powered by actin and myosin protein filaments, like those in human muscle, constricting the protozoan and pulling the host membrane over it.

There are these greenfield areas like the human brain, systems biology, understanding how cells work internally, and how the proteins interact inside the cell.

Nevertheless, proteins make networks and interact with each other, like social networking humans do,» Chiba says.

Comparing levels of S1PR2 in people with MS, mice with a similar disease, and healthy humans and mice, the team found the groups with MS or the MS - like disease had higher levels of the protein, meaning the blood - brain barrier was more permeable.

When working properly, the two genes form the coupled protein and when something sweet enters the mouth the news is rushed to the brain, primarily because sweetness is a sign of rich carbohydrates — an important food source for plant - eaters and the nondiscriminating, like humans.

A total of 24 genes including a gene called Aipl1 — standing for aryl hydrocarbon receptor interacting protein like 1 — have been linked to LCA in humans and mice.

In the 1970s, when biologists first glimpsed the landscape of human genes, they saw that the small pieces of DNA that coded for proteins (known as exons) seemed to float like bits of wood in a sea of genetic gibberish.

Like many viruses, MERS works by hijacking the ubiquitin system in human cells composed of hundreds of proteins that rely on ubiquitin to keep the cells alive and well.

«Within 3 weeks after expression of the NeuroD1 protein, we saw in the microscope that human glial cells were reinventing themselves: they changed their shape from flat sheet - like glial cells into normal - looking neurons with axon and dendritic branches,» Chen said.

Now, they've demonstrated that a single amino acid — known by its number along the protein chain, 139 — is the key to this prion protein variant adopting a «human - like» versus a «hamster - like» structure, while another amino acid, 112, governs the structural differences between the human and mouse versions of the protein.

A total of 24 genes including a gene called Aipl1 — standing for aryl hydrocarbon receptor interacting protein like 1 - have been linked to LCA in humans and mice.

In their latest research, the Joslin team performed many experiments to explore the actions of these two proteins, called centromere protein A (CENP - A) and polo - like kinase - 1 (PLK1), in mice and in cells from humans and mice.

Human ES cells treated with Noggin, Dickkopf - 1, and Insulin - like Growth Factor - 1 proteins differentiate into functional photoreceptors [5].

Cannabinoid inhibits HIV - 1 Tat - stimulated adhesion of human monocyte - like cells to extracellular matrix proteins.

Pisabarro, M. T.; Leung, B; Kwong, M.; Corpuz, R.; Frantz, G. D.; Chiang, N.; Vandlen, R.; Diehl, L. J.; Skelton, N.; Eaton, D.; Schmidt, K. N. Novel Human Dendritic Cell - and Monocyte - attracting Chemokine - like Protein Identified by Fold Recognition Methods Journal of Immunology, 176, 2069 — 2073 (2006)

Yamanaka's group used human adult dermal fibroblasts and induced them to become iPSCs, appearing and functioning like hESCs, by having them express the same proteins as he used with mouse cells: Oct - 4, Sox2, Klf4, and c - Myc (Takahashi et al., 2007).

Therefore vesicle - like stainings are annotated as «vesicles» in the Human Protein Atlas and the terms «endosomes», «lysosomes» and «peroxisomes» are only used if colocalization experiments were carried out.

In this way, they are related to human proteins that also have prion - like characteristics.

The reason kids like Arya live at all is that humans have a slightly defective cousin of the SMA gene that produces only enough nourishing protein to keep patients alive for a while.

The broad conservation of neurohormonal signaling pathways between mammalian systems and C. elegans such as insulin - like signaling, serotonin, etc., validates studying the cell non-autonomous control of protein homeostasis by the nervous system of C. elegans to instruct our understanding of age - related human disease.

Because yeast cells are eukaryotic, like human cells, the approach could be a powerful new way to engineer humanlike proteins and cell pathways.

A Tryptophan - Rich Motif in the Human Parainfluenza Virus Type 2 V Protein Is Critical for the Blockade of Toll - Like Receptor 7 (TLR7)- and TLR9 - Dependent Signaling

Like I said, these three amino acids are essential (the human body can't synthesize them — they must be obtained from the diet) and they form the biggest part of muscle protein which is about 33 percent.

Studies have shown that all the human growth hormone released by the pituitary gland is processed by the liver and then metabolized in order to create IGF - 1 or other insulin - like growth factors responsible for anti-aging protein construction, growth, and HGH development functions.

The gliadin protein in wheat exerts this effect on the human brain because it is degraded to a group of compounds called exorphins, or exogenous morphine - like compounds; these effects that can be blocked with administration of opiate - blocking drugs.

Proteins with a higher biological value are linked to inflammation in humans and can increase IGF - 1, an insulin - like growth hormone that is linked to the proliferation, metastases (spread), and invasion of cancer.

In 2001 the Nutrition Committee of the American Heart Association published a long overdue review warning people of the dangers of high protein diets, like the Atkins, the Zone, and Sugar Busters diets.14 Unfortunately, this one statement in an otherwise valuable report is scientifically incorrect: «Although plant proteins form a large part of the human diet, most are deficient in 1 or more essential amino acids and are therefore regarded as incomplete proteins.»

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Collagen is the protein produced by the human body that helps and repairs soft tissues of the body like muscles and cartilages.

But I am all in on eventually getting a pill, injection, whatever... of a molecule or protein like TIMP2, found in abundance in human umbilical cord blood and found to enhance nerve cell activity.

So the reason bodybuilders / gym go - ers and the like require more protein than the average human is because: When you exercise, you're effectively damaging your muscles.