Sentences with phrase «pore through the cell membrane»

Kir4.2 is a potassium channel — it forms a pore through the cell membrane that allows potassium ions to enter the cell.

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While another laser beam detected the exact location of the cell membrane, they pushed the particle through the pore with the tweezers.

Through a pore it drills into the cell membrane, each toxin then sends pieces of itself with two enzymatic activities into the cell.

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

Isaacs submerged a billion E. coli cells in pools of water brimming with the bits of DNA and viral enzymes, and zapped the mixture with electricity, opening pores in the bacteria's cell membranes for the DNA to pass through.

High resolution 3D images reveal that once the three components of the parasite — nucleus (blue), other organelles (red), and the green pore the parasite brings with it and through which it invades (green)-- have attached to the cell, a switch is triggered and the parasite is free to burrow through the cell's membrane.

As with laser irradiation, the transient cell - membrane disruption allows genetic material present in surrounding medium to enter through nanometer - size transient aqueous pores (20).

Finally, ultrasound also has been used to induce pore formation in cell membranes through a method known as sonoporation.

The iPS cells are cultured on the opposite side of the membrane in the other channel that represents the glomerulus» urinary compartment, where they are induced to form a layer of mature podocytes that extend long cellular processes through the pores in the membrane and contact the underlying endothelial cells.

The cells squeeze themselves through the constrictions to make transient membrane pores.