Sentences with phrase «new enzymes»

Protein motions and structural dynamics play an important role in the evolution of new enzyme functions, an international team reports.

About half of the protein we eat every day is used to make new enzymes.

In both cases, the production of new enzymes shuts down and the cells affected by the toxin can no longer grow or reproduce.

These enzymes do everything from breaking glucose down for energy to building cell walls, constructing new enzymes and allowing the cell to reproduce.

DNA guides the cell in its production of new enzymes.

Protein engineering studies often suggest the emergence of completely new enzyme functionalities to be highly improbable.

To search for new enzymes that could repair telomeres, the researchers — Susan Smith, Titia de Lange, and their colleagues at Rockefeller University in New York City — used a biochemical screen to find substances that interact with TRF1, a human protein known to bind to telomeres.

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Covalently binding drugs include old drugs such as aspirin and penicillin, as well as powerful new enzyme inhibitor drugs for treating cancers.

The enzymes it needs to function properly allow the cell to create energy from glucose, construct the pieces that make up its cell wall, reproduce and, of course, produce new enzymes.

The body takes time to adapt to the new stress of hypoglycemia and must create new enzymes to produce ketones faster and use them in the cells of the body.

It could be inferred from this that efficient mechanisms for the emergence and subsequent evolution of completely new enzyme functionalities must exist or, at least, that they must have existed at the primordial protein stage.

This means the blight can make new enzymes as fast as potatoes evolve ways to neutralise the old ones.

Designing new enzymes in the test tube has relied on two techniques.

Indeed, protein engineering studies often suggest that the emergence of completely new enzyme active sites is highly improbable.

«New enzymes central to cell function: Enzymes open door for targeted therapeutics across disease spectrum.»

Demonstration shows that structural dynamics play an important role in evolving new enzyme functions

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Some of Novozymes» latest technological pushes rely on mining the microbiome to find powerful new enzymes or activities.

Genencor genetically engineered the fungus to become more effective and to produce new enzymes that are then used to convert cellulose more quickly into sugar, the basic building block for biofuel, Lavielle said.

Significant advancements have been made in the bioprocessing of hPS cells including the formulation of new cell culture media, the development of extracellular and acellular matrices that can replace feeder cells, the development of new enzymes for passaging and the discovery of small molecules that significantly enhance the survival and clonogenicity of dissociated cells, allowing single cell cryopreservation.

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New enzyme technologies for texture modification and improved digestibility of food components, including the development of new enzymes, rational computational design and modelling enzyme activity and its impact on gut health.

It is developed through genetic engineering and produces two new enzymes that complete the beta - carotene expression in the rice grain.

Even more tantalizing, experts say, is that inhibitors of this new enzyme may be able to stop cancer in its tracks.

They've dubbed their new enzymes xCas9s, and the best one works with NGN, a sequence that occurs in one - fourth of the genome.

Models suggest that incorporating the new enzymes into wheat could increase photosynthesis by up 20 % under some field conditions.

To confirm whether this new enzyme performed the same role as the other xanthophyll enzymes, the researchers inserted the CVDE gene into mutant forms of algae and plants that do not produce zeaxanthin.

This new enzyme was experimentally produced in bacteria and tested for its functionality.

The new enzymes could settle the dispute, if inhibiting them does in fact help Alzheimer's patients.

«From our preliminary evidence, the enzymes we're studying have the potential to be better for industrial use than the ones being used now,» said Sean Gilmore, a Ph.D. student in O'Malley's lab and a co-author on the paper, who also identified the new enzymes while examining the genomes of the new fungi.

The new enzyme converts A to a base called inosine, or I. Either a cellular repair mechanism or the process of the DNA copying itself then changes the I to a G. «The big deal here is engineering the TadA enzyme to do something fairly unnatural,» says George Church of Harvard, who studies CRISPR.

She adds that GAT should work in other crops as well.Stephen Duke of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in University, Mississippi, says the approach to finding the new enzyme was fast and effective — «brilliant work.»

The new enzymes could serve as therapeutic targets for drug developers.

The researchers exposed the COX -3-bearing insect cells to various painkillers and to their astonishment found that acetaminophen almost completely inhibited the new enzyme.

«Administration of NO can not replicate the function of SNOs carried out by these new enzymes.»

A new enzyme inhibits acetaminophen and resembles COX - 1 (above), with an addition to the site marked in yellow.

The mechanism that keeps other sperm out is still somewhat mysterious, but scientists have identified a new enzyme that appears to have a strong hand in guarding the gate.

«This system will allow us to explore the evolutionary and functional relationships between enzymes, guiding the engineering of new enzymes that can carry out novel beneficial reactions,» Herschlag said.

Using genes from these chromosomal regions, Richter identified three new enzymes that function in terpene synthesis pathways to produce linalool, nerolidol, and other terpenes.

However, since the cells are no longer intact and therefore are not alive, no new enzymes are produced.

The scientists built a new enzyme referred to as a «base editor.»

Biofuels International covered the discovery of a new enzyme at JBEI that helps convert aryl compounds, a common waste product from industrial and agricultural practices, into something of value.

Research say that a new enzyme has been shown to offer prevention or a cure for obese mice with diabetes (Photo: Shutterstock)

«Ben's lab was screening panels of lipids to find the ones that their new enzymes work on,» said Saghatelian, who is a former research associate in the Cravatt laboratory.

The two labs are now collaborating on further studies of the new enzymes — and the potential benefits of inhibiting them — in mouse models of diabetes, inflammation and autoimmune disease.

A group of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have created a new enzyme called RTX that can produce transcriptions up to ten times more accurate than ever before.

Credit: Scientists have discovered a new enzyme that could enable the first microbial production of bio-based toluene, a widely used octane booster in gasoline.