Sentences with phrase «outer membrane like»

Insulin can open up a cell's outer membrane like a key in a door lock and set in motion the machinery that feeds the cell glucose, which is converted to energy.

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Then, like a classic cat burglar cutting a hole in glass, B. bacteriovorus forces its way through the outer membrane and seems to seal the hole behind it.

Like lipoprotein nanoparticles, the MIT team's new lipopeptide particles are spheres whose outer membranes are composed of long chains with a fatty lipid tail that faces into the particle.

Cell biologists previously didn't know whether the LppA protein propped up the cell wall, like pillars prop up a roof, or whether the outer membrane was tethered to the cell wall.

The researchers incubate cells with tiny snippets of single - stranded DNA engineered to slip into the cells» outer membranes, covering each cell like the hairs on a tennis ball.

For the first time, scientists have demonstrated a simple charge - based mechanism for regulating the formation and dissolution of liquid - like structures that lack outer membranes inside cells.

I sliced open its tough outer membrane, which revealed a soft, orange flesh, like mango.

BOSTON — The outer membrane of a cancer cell ruffles like the dress of a flamenco dancer.

This work zeroes in on trying to stop construction of a bacterial cell layer called peptidoglycan, a mesh - like structure that, in gram - negative bacteria like E. coli, rests between the inner and outer cell membranes.

This is a U-shaped molecule on the outer membrane of white blood cells that functions like a grasping claw.

Gram - negative bacteria like E. coli and the organisms that cause many sexually transmitted infections have an outer membrane that Teixobactin can't penetrate.

That change now allows blue light to open gate - like channels in the cells» outer walls, or membranes.

The chorion (outer membrane or shell) is porous and thin, with a gel - like, amorphous structure Img 1.

Tina Maria Nielsen's exhibition, Skin of Mine, deals with surfaces, membranes and the interface between outer and inner, like human skin.

The syndrome inflames the mucus membranes and eyes, burning off the outer layer of skin and marking it with rashes just like Bartlett's.