Sentences with phrase «proteins called light»

In photosynthesis, light strikes colored molecules that are embedded within proteins called light - harvesting antenna complexes.

LJI investigator Michael Croft, Ph.D., takes a complementary approach to treating eczema by blocking a protein called LIGHT, which belongs to the TNF family of pro-inflammatory cytokines.

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Patients that have a defective gene called RPE65 — which is responsible for producing a protein that makes light receptors in the eye — suffer from leber congenital amaurosis and retinitis pigmentosa, yet now have hope.

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Studying liquid squeezed out from these luminescent organs, Shimomura identified two proteins — called aequorin and GFP — that worked together to emit light.

By studying the same process in cultured cells, the scientists found that the light stimulated a molecular chain reaction that activated a normally dormant protein called TGF - beta 1.

The technology allows scientists in the lab to «light up» and then monitor a brain protein called alpha - synuclein that has been associated with Parkinson's.

When G - CSF activates its receptor, it ultimately activates proteins called STATs; the team engineered the cells to churn out the light - generating protein luciferase, which would be turned on by the STAT molecules.

Like removing unnecessary lighting from a financially strapped household to save on electricity bills, the drug — called rapamycin — prolongs the survival of diseased neurons by forcing them to reduce protein production to conserve cellular energy.

Such brainless creatures rely on signals from light - sensitive proteins called opsins.

The animal does so by using the same family of light - sensitive proteins called opsins found in its eyes — a process not previously described for cephalopods.

He recently has focused on a specific skin - barrier protein called filaggrin, which is broken down into a molecule called urocanic acid — the most potent absorber of UVB light in the skin, according to Elias.

A team of University of Illinois at Urbana — Champaign (U.I.U.C.) physicists has assembled a supercomputer consisting of several hundred superfast graphics processing units (GPUs)-- typically used for rendering highly sophisticated video game graphics — that they think will help them build a simulation depicting how chromatophore proteins turn light energy into chemical energy, a process called photosynthesis.

The researchers found that mutations to a gene called ATF6, a key regulator of the unfolded protein response, can lead to achromatopsia, a hereditary visual disorder characterized by color blindness, decreased vision, light sensitivity, and uncontrolled eye movement in children.

She used a virus to ferry light - sensitive channelrhodopsin - 2 proteins into neurons of the region called the ventrolateral subdivision of the ventromedial hypothalamus, or VMHvl.

He mentioned mouse studies by Chris Fiorillo, now at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), who inserted genetic sequences that code for a light - sensitive protein called channelrhodopsin - 2 into dopamine - producing neurons of mice.

The team, which also includes Carnegie's Ari Kornfeld and Joseph Berry, discovered that a protein, called KEA3, is crucial for immediate adjustment of photosynthetic efficiency in fluctuating light conditions.

Originally from algae, the gene makes a protein called channelrhodopsin - 2, which reacts to blue light by admitting ions into the brain cells, activating them in the process.

The work is part of a growing field called optogenetics, and used light - activated proteins from photosynthetic algae to switch nerve cells on and off.

The researchers boosted levels of a protein called α - CaMKII involved in memory storage and retrieval, just as mice recalled the pain of receiving a light shock.

In this technique, researchers engineer mice to express light - sensitive proteins called opsins.

Their findings, reported in the May 19 issue of the journal PLOS ONE, shed light on how the global caterpillar pest called pink bollworm overcomes biotech cotton, which was designed to make an insect - killing bacterial protein called Bt toxin.

The protein, called melanopsin, first came to light during studies of melatonin, a hormone associated with human sleep cycles, says Ignacio Provencio, a neurobiologist at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.

One is a brain protein called neurofilament light chain, the other is called tau.

Rod and cone cells in the human retina contain proteins called opsins that change shape when light strikes them.

But she and Koyuncu instead infected cell bodies with what they called «light particles» — virus particles that had been hollowed out, leaving the envelope and tegument proteins but with no genome or core — and found that they were able to achieve the same escape from silencing.

Scientists discovered earlier that shining a blue light at the cells had the same result, activating the cells through a light - sensitive protein called ChR2.

The experiments, led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), are helping researchers narrow down the process by which the protein, called photosystem II, uses light energy to split water and create oxygen.

Receiver proteins bind to the signals and then pass them to large proteins called enzymes embedded in the cell membrane (light blue and green squares).

One of the most intriguing of these proteins, which could help create better tests for traumatic brain injury, is called neurofilament light — or, as it's known for short, NFL.

They found that blood levels of a protein called neurofilament light chain corresponded with the severity of HD, making it a potential biomarker.

The protein at the center of this story is called neurofilament light chain, or NfL.

A protein called katanin drives this mechanism, which it achieves by redirecting microtubule growth in response to blue light.

Another protein called green fluorescent protein, or GFP, absorbs this light, and through a biophysical process, turns it into a glowing emerald green.

This unnatural sheen is caused by the Northwest Pacific jellyfish Aequorea victoria, whose cellular makeup includes a bioluminescent protein called aequorin that a emits a deep blue light.

Now researchers are narrowing down a specific eye protein called Cry4 that appears to allow birds to sense magnetic waves in the presence of blue light.

Using a technique called optogenetics, they injected a virus that expresses light - sensitive proteins into the central amygdala of mice.