Sentences with phrase «regulating other genes»

Both genes act by regulating other genes involved in genetic patterning, but panish represses them while bicoid activates them.

It is believed to have an epigenetic function, regulating other genes by switching them off when necessary.

The long version regulates other genes; what the short version does remains a mystery.

«So, the question is: How do RNA genes interact and regulate other genes?

MicroRNAs don't get turned into protein, but directly regulate other genes.

PPAR - delta regulates other genes.

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Vocabularies proliferate as repressor genes, corepressors and aporepressors, modifier and switch genes, operator genes that activate other genes, cistrons and operons that constitute subsystems of interacting genes — even genes that regulate the rate of mutation in other genes — are invoked.

And on the world - food security front, ARS» Stuttgart center is closing in on genes that regulate rice's uptake and storage of iron, thiamine and other important vitamins and minerals — a pursuit that could bolster the nutritional value of this cereal grain crop as a staple food for roughly half the world's population.

This standard addresses health and safety requirements, regulating the sale of food produced using gene technology, other than additives and processing aids.

It has been estimated that 5 % to 10 % of infants who die from SIDS have novel mutations in the cardiac sodium or potassium channel genes that result in long QT syndrome as well as in other genes that regulate channel function.44 A recent report described important new molecular and functional evidence that implicates specific SCN5A (sodium channel gene) β subunits in SIDS pathogenesis.47 The identification of polymorphisms in genes pertinent to the embryologic origin of the autonomic nervous system in SIDS cases also lends support to the hypothesis that a genetic predisposition contributes to the etiology of SIDS.

The DNA segments that carry genetic information are called genes, but other DNA sequences have structural purposes, or are involved in regulating the expression of genetic information.

A mushroom whose genes have been edited with molecular scissors known as CRISPR / Cas9 doesn't need to be regulated like other genetically modified crops, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said April 13 in a letter to the mushroom's creator.

Other genes activated by the guide RNA encode mitochondrial proteins that help cells regulate their energy metabolism, and trafficking proteins that are involved in packaging and transporting other protOther genes activated by the guide RNA encode mitochondrial proteins that help cells regulate their energy metabolism, and trafficking proteins that are involved in packaging and transporting other protother proteins.

Other teams are trying to introduce the proteins encoded by the genes directly into cells, while Yamanaka is experimenting with «microRNAs» — snippets of RNA that help regulate gene activity.

Base oxidation regulates gene activity In cooperation with colleagues at LMU, as well as researchers based in Berlin, Basel and Utrecht, Carell and his group have now shown, for the first time, that a standard base other than cytosine is also modified in embryonic stem cells of mice.

The activity of four transcription factors — proteins that regulate the expression of other genes — appears to distinguish the small proportion of glioblastoma cells responsible for the aggressiveness and treatment resistance of the deadly brain tumor.

Among other things, the gene ontology has allowed researchers to efficiently ask, «What kind of genes are up - regulated under these conditions?»

They add that other genes in the region of the genome around Gp - 9 are probably involved in regulating fire ant social organization as well.

Other directions for future research, Liu said, include looking at the role of CLOCK in more forms of the disease, learning more about exactly how CLOCK affects neural circuits to disrupt adequate inhibition of excitatory neurons, and examining whether any of the genes that CLOCK regulates are especially important in the disorder.

One encodes retinoid - related orphan receptor alpha (RORα), a transcription factor that itself regulates multiple other genes.

Biologists assumed that proteins alone regulate the genes of humans and other complex organisms.

The gene IRF4 helps regulate melanin in the body, which determines - among other things - hair color.

Other genes involved in transmitting glutamate signals, which help regulate mood, had increased activity in tame foxes, Pipes said.

Strome noted that the findings in this study of transmission of histone methylation in C. elegans have important implications in other organisms, even though different organisms use the repressive marker that was studied to regulate different genes during different aspects of development.

Lee's next step is to identify the 11 other genes that seem to be regulated by BRCA1 and figure out their function.

«These genes are conserved in humans and other mammals, but their activity is regulated differently after an injury like a heart attack.»

Transcription - factor genes code for proteins that regulate the activity of other genes and so affect an animal's ability to respond to its environment.

Scientists have identified genes that are active during puberty, but most also have key functions in other basic processes, such as regulating fat.

She's now searching for other proteins and genes through which Bcl - 2 may act to spur regeneration, and for the genes that regulate Bcl - 2 production itself.

Some of the genes involved help regulate the flow of ions in and out of the cells, particularly nerve cells; others code for so - called heat shock proteins that are typically induced during stress.

Ko first cloned the human GT198 gene while a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, and subsequent studies by her and others have shown it has multiple roles that also include regulating stem cells, cell suicide and turning other genes off and on.

Gene drive is so different from other technologies involving genetic modification that it requires a whole new way of thinking about how to evaluate and regulate it, says Jennifer Kuzma, a natural and social scientist at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh who helped organize a February workshop there.

What we were surprised to find out was that the real differences we could detect in terms of when we did the swap experiments to say which yeast could outperform the other — what we learned was that the GAL1 gene, that the part [of] that, the DNA sequence is outside of the GAL1 gene, it acts as a switch to turn up or turn down GAL1 expression, that had evolved considerably from the ancestral situation; and same for the GAL3.And then what had happened was that each function had been optimized, that GAL3 had sort have been tuned to be sort of a loosely regulated kind of available anytime sensor of galactose and GAL1 had evolved to be an incredibly tightly regulated, in fact, it's the most tightly regulated gene you know of in yeast.

«It's only possible through integrated analysis which allows us to look at this process at a systems level to see how genes, proteins and other components work together to regulate lignin production.»

The gene BRCA1 makes a protein that can attach ubiquitin, which helps to regulate processes in the body, to other proteins.

Using advanced computer analysis techniques designed to study and process biological data, the researchers identified SND1 among a handful of other genes that miR - 184 helps regulate.

The gene works by binding to DNA and regulating the expression of other genes.

Two other genes that the analysis suggested had evolved in the Bajau were BDKRB2, which controls blood vessel constriction in the extremities, and FAM178B, which helps regulate carbon dioxide balance in the blood.

The alteration is predicted to result in the production of a shortened ETV6 protein that can not fulfill its normal function of binding to DNA and regulating the expression of other genes.

Previous research found that Short - root activates other transcription factors as well, creating a cascade in which each gene - regulating protein controls the next in the root development pathway.

(The markers include genes and other DNA components, such as parts of the DNA that turn proteins on or off, and cellular components that play a role in regulating genes.)

The HLA (human leukocyte antigen) is a system of genes responsible for regulating immune responses, and peptides are short chains of amino acids that play key roles in regulating the activities of other molecules.

Sometimes cells make the correct amount anyway; other times CNVs affect DNA regions that regulate the expression of still other genes, making the problem more complicated.

«The computer model predicts that by altering this system by up - regulating some genes and down - regulating others, a 60 percent improvement could be achieved without any additional resource — so 60 percent more carbon could be assimilated for no more nitrogen,» Long said.

In others, the researchers altered a gene that regulates phospholipids, the primary type of fat in cell membranes, which spurred the cells into producing more cholesterol on their own.

Until this study, researchers weren't able to manipulate production of the different components independently of each other, since many of the transcription factors, proteins that bind to the plant's DNA and regulate gene expression, are redundant.

«In other words, access to the genes is determined by the host, but usage of particular genes is regulated by the microbes,» Crawford said.

Compared to other proteins involved in regulating gene activity, RNA binding proteins have not been well studied.

Other fast - changing genes — roughly 100 — are associated with neurotransmitters, including serotonin (a mood regulator), glutamate (involved in general arousal), and dopamine (which regulates attention).

We can tell from its structure that the gene helps regulate the activity of other genes.