Sentences with phrase «of effector genes»

Then, they put small sets of effector genes back in and tested each strain's ability to infect leaves of the model plant, Nicotiana benthamiana.

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«My part of it was basically to identify what gene was being activated by a particular effector from the bacteria in order to cause disease,» he said.

Single - cell differential gene expression analysis revealed a spectrum of known transcripts, including several linked to cytotoxic and costimulatory function that are expressed at higher levels in the TEMRA (effector memory T cells expressing CD45RA) subset, which is highly enriched for CD4 - CTLs, compared with CD4 + T cells in the central memory (TCM) and effector memory (TEM) subsets.

As the end products and biological effectors of gene expression, proteins are crucial for improving our understanding of human biology, developing new and better drugs, and advancing precision medicine.

«What these new findings on exhausted T cells tells us is that the unique epigenetic profile of exhausted T cells causes these cells to express a different overall set of genes compared to memory or effector T cells,» Wherry said.

Functional Analysis of Bacterial TAL Effectors and the Targeted Susceptibility Genes in Plants.

As mRNA isolation is simple and since DNA microarrays are a proven genomics reagent for monitoring differential gene expression, a genome - wide expression analysis may be the fastest and most efficient method for identifying additional candidate effectors of colony queen number.

The variety of new tools available for genetic manipulation now include lentiviral - based gene delivery, and gene editing using CRISPR / Cas9, zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs) or transcription activator - like effector nucleases (TALENs).

Although antimicrobial peptides are not the only functional class to be overrepresented among short, secreted proteins encoded by members of multi-gene families, the prevalence of these properties among induced genes strongly suggests the possibly that at least some of these genes encode novel immune effectors.

Even though we can not definitively assign these genes an immune effector role, it is apparent that defensin - like peptides have an unusual diversity in Nasonia, representing 18/34 (52.9 %) homology - annotated AMPs and 6/14 (42.9 %) of putative novel AMPs.

While it is not straightforward to directly compare the immune repertoire reported here with previous reports that have used different underlying gene models [15], [34], we do note that our inference about the number and identity of signaling components is consistent with previous annotations [15], [34], while our inference about recognition and effectors tends to reflect greater, albeit still relatively minor, differences.

Scatterplot (with jitter of overlapping points) showing fold - change for AMPs, other effectors, recognition, signaling, proteases, and non-immune genes.

This correspondence makes it possible to rapidly identify TAL effector targets, to engineer novel TAL effectors with custom assortments of repeats to bind DNA sequences of choice, and even to customize genes for TAL effector activation (or prevent it!).

Major areas of activity in our lab include 1) identification and characterization of Sgenes, 2) genomic analyses to identify the diversity of TAL effectors in pathogen populations and understand their evolution, and 3) structural and biochemical studies to better harness the unique properties of these proteins for applications such as targeted gene regulation and genome editing.

Immune effector systems also consist largely of metazoan innovations, such as the macrophage - expressed gene 1 (MPEG1) that participates directly in pathogen elimination38.

For liver transplant - free survival, we identified a genome - wide significant signal and demonstrated expression of the candidate gene RSPO3 in key liver - resident effector cells.

A patent application has been filed and testing is underway on the protein — called HT - TALENs (short for HIV - targeted transcription activator - like effector nucleases)-- which uses a newly developed gene - editing technique to rid the body's cells of the immunodeficiency virus before it has a chance to multiply and possibly develop into AIDS.

Although dCas9 can tether different effectors, several dCas9 fusions (e.g., dCas9 - VP64 activator and dCas9 - KRAB repressor) can not be co-introduced with sgRNAs to regulate two set of genes differently since both fusions will bind to both set of genes directed by both sets of sgRNAs (Fig 1).

Combining our in vitro assay with microarrays analyses, we have uncovered previously unknown effectors and target genes of Wnt.