Sentences with phrase «on bacterial genes»

Based on bacterial genes, the team identified a human protein, selenium binding protein 1, which can convert methanethiol into other and compounds.

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Rho, found in many bacteria, acts as a protein regulator of bacterial gene expression, determining which genes get turned on or off.

In 2010, the environment ministry put on hold the commercial planting of GM brinjal, an eggplant variety, equipped with a bacterial gene that thwarts insect pests.

Three options are on the table: tweak cereals so that they form symbiotic partnerships with rhizobia as legumes do; colonise cereal roots with other types of nitrogen - fixing bacteria; or transfer the bacterial genes that make fertiliser directly into the crop plants.

Furthermore, these spikes were timed based upon the positions of the KinA and Spo0F genes on the bacterial genome.

To determine how similar a person's fingertip bacteria are to bacteria left on computer keys, the team took swabs from three computer keyboards and compared bacterial gene sequences with those from the fingertips of the keyboard owners.

The genes encoding NDM - 1 and other antibiotic resistance factors are usually carried on plasmids — circular strands of DNA separate from the bacterial genome — making it easier for them to spread through populations.

This form of interference with bacterial gene regulation is also of pharmaceutical interest as it is known that pathogenic bacteria can protect themselves against attack by the immune system and the effect of antibiotics by forming biofilms, for instance on the epithelium of the respiratory system.

These crops, being embraced by big agriculture in the U.S., carry genes that imbue them with resistance to herbicides and lace their tissues with a bacterial toxin harmless to humans but fatal to pests that may try to feed on them.

But people often reject ideas which don't fit into the bacterial model of gene regulation, which is that genes are turned on and off by proteins binding to DNA.

Bacterial conjugation relies on a ring of DNA called a plasmid with the genes necessary to build the mating bridge and shoot DNA across it.

Although Jack and Malcolm had never met F2F, they were a tight team with a good rep on the Distributed Biology Network: gene hunters who amplified bacterial DNA from soil and water samples, shotgun sequenced it, and identified genes that weren't in the catalogs.

To minimize any impacts on food supplies, the investigators then sought out genes from other bacterial species that can break down cellulose, the tough material that makes up the bulk of plants but is not fit for human consumption.

«We would like to conduct more studies to gather data on the dynamics of these bacterial groups, but the fact that these genes are present indicates that more studies should be done.»

These genes exist on plasmids, small segments of DNA that are capable of moving from one bacterium to another, potentially spreading antibiotic resistance to other bacterial species.

In previous research, Grice and colleagues illuminated the great diversity of bacteria living on the skin using DNA - based sequence analysis of bacterial genes.

Presumably because of sideways gene traffic in the distant past, both archaea and eukarya seem to rely on bacterial - type genes to manage much of their general chemical metabolism.

And because finch populations in the Western United States and Hawaii were not affected by this bacterial outbreak, genetic comparison can help determine whether Mhc genes were responsible for protecting finch populations on the East Coast after the initial disaster in 1994.

(At least one test, Agilent's Mycoplasma Plus PCR assay, is based on a different bacterial gene.)

Phylogenomic analysis identifies evidence for lateral gene transfer of bacterial genes into the E. histolytica genome, the effects of which centre on expanding aspects of E. histolytica's metabolic repertoire.

While previous attempts focused on swapping bacterial genes that code for the turbocharged rubisco, the team also made other genetic substitutions that encode proteins that manufacture the rubisco.

The researchers looked for genes that make proteins located on the outside of the bacterial cell.

Bacterial gene regulation has so far been investigated largely using exposure to artificial environmental conditions or to in vitro cultured cells, and little information is available on how S. enterica adapts in vivo to sustain cell division and survival.

Protocols for the modification of BACs, BAC transgenesis production, and histology are available at the GENSAT website; a complete description of the procedure can be found in «A gene expression atlas of the central nervous system based on bacterial artificial chromosomes», Nature.

We examined the effect of loss of the gene on bacterial motility, adhesion and invasion of tissue culture cells and chicken colonisation, as well as the effect on the muropeptide profile of the peptidoglycan sacculus.

The foundation of her food plan are «pulses,» which promote the growth of your good gut bacterial flora, which turn on your fat - burning genes, promote vibrant health, and prevent disease.

Stephen Hughes, Ph.D., research molecular biologist at the USDA - ARS, described an automated process for high - throughput transformation (with bacterial xylose isomerase and xylose kinase genes), mutagenesis, and screening of yeast to select for fast - growing strains optimized for anaerobic growth on xylose.