Sentences with phrase «set of proteins»

Already they have found that it takes a different set of protein factors to flip the two kinds of genetic switches.

This approach can generate a diverse set of protein structures with many of the distinctive features that proteins require to carry out specific biological functions.

An established stem cell group usually expresses a distinct set of proteins.

Two such bacteria have been sequenced already, but neither contains a widespread and important set of proteins called type III.

Neuregulin 1, for example, activates an entirely different set of proteins in other types of neurons.

It is also selective — encouraging iNKT cells to release a specific set of proteins known as Th1 cytokines — that stimulate anti-tumor immunity.

«The new electron microscopy methodology is a major breakthrough in biomedical sciences as it has enabled the discovery of the atomic structure of a whole new set of proteins» says Zuber.

After testing if the cells remained viable, or alive, after printing, the researchers examined how the cells proliferated, how they expressed a specific set of proteins that help tumours spread, and how resistant the cells were to anti-cancer drugs.

C) Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curves demonstrate the discriminating power of the select set of proteins that were detected as having statistical differences by ANOVA (p < 0.05) in abundance in the analysis of individual patient samples.

Last year, researchers at NIAID and elsewhere solved a decade - long mystery when they found that HIV uses a second set of proteins to gain entry into immune cells.

Probes mimicking other lipids also revealed large sets of protein interactions.

Each chemotactic species shares a core set of proteins, including a receptor for sensing the environment and a response regulator that controls the motor of the flagellum, a tail - like appendage that propels the bacterium in one direction or another.

In identifying the contents of that fluid, he documented different sets of proteins for each group of patients, potential biomarkers that distinguish between the two conditions and healthy controls.

During autophagy, a defined set of proteins coordinates the removal of viruses, bacteria, and damaged or superfluous material from a cell.

There are two sets of protein translation systems in mammalian cells — the cytoplasmic translation system and the mitochondrial translation system — both of which are composed of ribosome, tRNAs and translation factors.

«Can we watch and see what's going on with a given set of proteins, and can understanding the mechanics help us understand how the cell is functioning?

This contiguous set of protein - to - protein and protein - to - DNA interactions provided a direct explanation of how TGF -(beta) negatively controls the cell cycle.

Researchers have found more evidence that the sleep - wake cycle that governs the daily activities of a variety of organisms, including humans, is regulated by conserved sets of proteins.

PIP levels are regulated by a known set of proteins including Efr3 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

The catch is that while genes can be readily sequenced to assess the presence of mutations, a complete tally of the wayward activity of potentially relevant proteins is much harder, thus thwarting previous attempts to identify the precise set of proteins that controls the cancer cell's «engine room.»

MIT researchers have devised a new set of proteins that can be customized to bind arbitrary RNA sequences, making it possible to image RNA inside living cells, monitor what a particular RNA strand is doing, and even control RNA activity.

The viruses also induce the bacteria to produce a second set of proteins that helps guide the assembly of P22 spheres, from the coat proteins, on the outer surface of the cell membrane.

The researchers studied a process called compartmentalization, which establishes and maintains different compartments within a cell, each containing a specific set of proteins.

For the first time, a set of proteins in the blood have been linked to suicidal behaviour.

This separation of nucleic acid strands is brought about by interaction with a set of proteins loops in a strand / loop network.

Blood coagulation is regulated by one set of proteins that causes clotting and another set that prevents it.

So they started searching for other species that shared a set of proteins found in L. lugubris's cells but not in L. moestus's, which therefore must have come from the paternal ancestor.

The authors say these sets of proteins can serve as biomarkers for monitoring autophagy in the clinical setting.

The IU researchers focused on a set of proteins called toll - like receptors, which function as sentinels on the surfaces of cells.

By examining the genes of a Hawaiian population of frigatebirds, researchers found that females prefer to mate with males who have a set of proteins called major histocompatability complex (MHC) markers that are genetically different from their own, regardless of whether the two love birds are related.

CRISPR, originally discovered by biologists studying the bacterial immune system, involves a set of proteins that bacteria use to defend themselves against bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria).

Powered by the synthetic genome, that microbial cell began replicating and making a new set of proteins.

Therefore, it's useful for researchers to know the set of proteins present, or the proteome, in a cell or tissue at a given time and under certain conditions.

This set of proteins can process seven of the eight base - base mismatches in a strand - specific reaction that is directed by the state of methylation of a single d (GATC) sequence located 1 kilobase from the mispair.

Researchers at the Babraham Institute and the Karolinska Institute report today in Cell Stem Cell that they have identified a set of proteins (molecular «flags») that are present on the surface of either naïve or primed human embryonic stem cells.

What's more, the team discovered a set of proteins that seem to shuttle lactate to the cell's energy centers, the mitochondria.

In the most common type of CRISPR - Cas system, called a Type I system, a CRISPR RNA and a set of proteins tightly latch onto a matching sequence of DNA.

It also aligns with a study done earlier this year at Rockefeller University that examined a different set of proteins and enzymes related to Alzheimer's.

Dr. Welsbie's lab has screened through thousands of proteins and drugs and identified a set of proteins that seem to play a central role in retinal ganglion cell death.

Thomson's group also created human iPSCs, but used fetal fibroblasts and foreskin fibroblasts and a different set of proteins; while both groups used Oct - 4 and Sox2, Thomson's group used Nanog and Lin28 instead of Klf4 and c - Myc (Yu et al., 2007).

Even though different cell types were used as the initial starting materials, and they were made to produce different sets of proteins, both groups identified and isolated cells nearly identical to human embryonic stem cells, and did so in the same timeframe.

Even though different cell types were used as the initial starting materials, and they were made to produce different sets of proteins, both groups were able to identify and isolate hESC - like cell colonies only 20 to 30 days after transduction.

If the dividing cell's set of proteins (its proteome) is compromised by defective RNA transcripts, however, all the progeny may be unfit.

* Proteins included to complete the set of proteins belonging to the MSP3, MSP7 - like and SERA families.

Methylation wonâ $ ™ t turn a gene off without the help of a set of proteins that bind preferentially to methylated DNA.