Sentences with phrase «lysine demethylases»

In the new study, expanding upon what scientists previously understood about intrinsic immunity, the researchers found that cells can subsequently respond to latent HCMV by employing other cellular proteins called lysine demethylases to reactivate the virus.

The research team learned the virus brings with it to the cell a protein called UL138 that blocks the cellular lysine demethylases from turning the virus back on.

KDM4A lysine demethylase induces site - specific copy gain and rereplication of regions amplified in tumors.

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This, says Shi, drove home that the enzyme, dubbed lysine - specific demethylase 1 (LSD1), represses specific genes by maintaining unmethylated histones.

Researchers have now shown that an epigenetic enzyme called lysine specific demethylase 1 (Lsd1) plays a major part in this transformation.