Sentences with phrase «outer membrane which»

The mitochondrial pathway of cell death (apoptosis) starts by permeabilization of the mitochondrial outer membrane which becomes peppered with small holes.

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The Sattler double membrane gas storage tank consists of an external membrane which forms the outer shape of the tank, as well as an internal membrane and a bottom membrane which make up the actual gas space.

My partner and midwife took the babies to be weighed and measured as our OB helped me to birth both placentas, which were intact and, interestingly, fused together by their outer membranes.

Transport proteins are responsible for moving materials such as nutrients and metabolic products through a cell's outer membrane, which seals and protects all living cells, to the cell's interior.

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.

The MSRs were then coated with lipids that formed a thin supported lipid bilayer (SLB), which resembles the outer membrane of APCs and that the researchers then functionalized with a pair of T cell - stimulating antibodies that remain mobile in the lipid layer and can bind to receptor / co-receptor molecules on the surface of T cells.

Once these peptides find a bacterium, they nestle into its outer membrane, then shape - shift themselves into nanotubes, which act as spigots, draining the cell and killing it within minutes.

A cell membrane, plasma membrane or plasmalemma is a selectively permeable lipid bilayer coated by proteins which comprises the outer layer of a cell.

Using a high - powered microscope, the UCLA researchers observed that bacteria cells lost some of the structure and definition of their outer membranes, which indicated that resveratrol may work by altering and possibly weakening the structure of the bacteria.

Real neurons have a voltage across their outer membrane, which Spikey mimics using capacitors: components that store charge.

Subsequently, the sorting and assembling machinery (SAM) was identified in the mitochondrial outer membrane, which is required for the insertion of the barrel proteins.

ATP is transported through further barrel pores across the mitochondrial outer membrane into the cytosol, which fuels life of human cells.

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

They then proceed to disintegrate the sperm's outer membrane and separate the mitochondria from the tail section, which is subsequently cut into smaller pieces that are then «devoured» by conventional selective autophagy.

Subjecting N. gonorrhoeae to the phenotypic microarray screening method for the first time, Sikora's team focused on seven proteins from the bacteria's cell envelope, which consists of the outer membrane, the cell wall and the inner membrane.

The DNA process disrupted by the U.N.C. team is called conjugation, which occurs when two bacteria sidle up to one another and punch holes in each of their outer membranes, allowing one microbe to shoot a single strand of DNA into the other.

The subunit BamA is located in the outer membrane and exposed to the outer side of the bacteria, which provides a great target for new drugs.

The protein LecA on the surface of the bacteria binds to sugar on special lipid molecules, so - called Gb3 lipids, which are present in the outer membrane of human cells.

This research project is the first study to directly localize the outer membrane - associated cytochromes with extracellular polymeric substance (EPS), as a complex structure, which contains UO2 nanoparticles.

This envelope, comprised of both an outer and inner membrane, which have significantly different properties, provides Gram negative bacteria with an excellent physical barrier to antibacterial agents.

We identified genomic «hotspots» of homologous recombination that include regions containing outer membrane proteins, the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) region and Dot / Icm effectors, which provide interesting clues to the selection pressures faced by L. pneumophila.

Previously, we have shown that purified S. Typhimurium porins including outer membrane protein OmpD, which induce both IgG1 and IgG2a in mice, provide protection to S. Typhimurium infection via Ab.

Publishing online in Science, the researchers report that the molecule to which progesterone must bind is the enzyme alpha / beta hydrolase domain containing protein 2 (ABHD2), found in the sperm cell's outer membrane.

Field Jacket of military US ARMY inspiration is a newly developed 3 - layer construction using a breathable and waterproof membrane which is bonded to both the outer cotton / nylon fabric and the inner nylon lining.

The outer part helps funnel sound to the eardrum, a membrane on the other side of which is the middle ear.

As each fetus enters the pelvis, the outer layer of its membranes appears briefly at the vulva as the «water bag» which will burst open.

When a sound travels into the inner ear, from the pinna (outer ear), the waves are channeled to the eardrum (also called the tympanic membrane) which signals the inner ear bones through vibration.