Sentences with phrase «outer walls of cells»

Melittin does its damage by penetrating the outer walls of cells and opening pores that allow the contents of the cell to escape.

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This rapidly dividing ball of cells separates into two sections: the inner group of cells will become the embryo and the outer group of cells will burrow into the uterine wall for nourishment.

They found that the tumor cells produce a protein that acts like Velcro to attach the cells to the outer wall of a blood vessel.

Badding and his group devised a new way of creating that semiconducting sandwich by starting with a flexible, hollow fiber - optic thread; inner and outer walls of the thread correspond to the positive and negative layers of the common solar cell.

By definition, gram - negative bacteria possess cell walls that consist of an outer membrane and a cytoplasmic membrane.

The researchers suspected that the outer portion of the Candida cell wall, composed of molecules called mannans, might be involved in binding GftB.

Meanwhile, other groups developed new ways of killing bacteria with vancomycin: One alteration found a novel way to halt cell wall construction, whereas another caused the outer wall membrane to leak, leading to cell death.

Hughes» graduate student Eli Cohen pursued the question of rod length control in Salmonella enterica using genetic tools with slow progress until, in one of his courses, he heard about the concept of the outer membrane tethering protein Lpp, that physically links the outer membrane to the cell wall.

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 cells of the outer layer will later give rise to the extraembryonic membranes and the placenta after the blastocyst implants in the wall of the uterus, while the embryo itself develops from the inner cell mass.

However, because M. barkeri has a complex cell wall, produces a thick outer layer of polysaccharide, and grows in large aggregates of cells rather than as individual cells, standard RNA extraction protocols give incomplete lysis of cells and result in low yields of poor - quality RNA.

When deprived of nitrogen, haploid cells of opposite mating types can fuse to become a diploid zygospore which forms a hard outer wall that protects it from adverse environmental conditions.

The outer wall of plant cells contain cellulose.

In addition, curcumin significantly improves barrier function, reducing translocation of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), the outer cell wall of gram - negative bacteria, from the luminal surface of the intestine into circulation (Ghosh et al., 2014).

Lipopolysaccharides (or LPS) are endotoxins that come from the outer cell walls of unfriendly bacteria, also known as gram - negative bacteria.

These bacterial agents enter into the urinary tract and reaches up to the cat bladder, where they get embedded in epithelium (outer layer) of the bladder walls which causes damage to cells, thus causing inflammation and infection.