Sentences with phrase «nonessential genes»

Mutations in two nonessential genes specifically block the phagocytosis of cells programmed to die during development.

In their current work, Venter, along with project leader Clyde Hutchison at JCVI, set out to determine the minimal set of genes needed for life by stripping nonessential genes from Syn 1.0.

Not exact matches

All this enabled them to systematically whittle away genes that either had nonessential functions or duplicated the function of another gene.

Using global transposon mutagenesis, we isolated and characterized gene disruption mutants for 100 different nonessential protein - coding genes.

Such genes are known as nonessential.

One of those genes might appear nonessential on its own — like a jet engine that could be shut down without causing the plane to crash — but if its buddy was also taken away, the cell would die.

In doing so, they found that many genes thought to be nonessential to life were actually one - half of gene pairs with the same function.

The dystrophin gene is very large (79 exons), but much of the sequence appears to be nonessential.