Sentences with phrase «through cytoplasm»

• Keeping abnormal proteins from building up and potentially shutting down major organs (heart, liver and nervous system, to name a few) • Protecting the brain's functions of learning and memory against neurotransmitter toxicity • Activating or increasing the activity of proteins that promote the initial growth, maintenance and survival of brain neurons • Enhancing the movement of proteins, lipids and other cell parts through the cytoplasm of cell bodies.

But getting through the cytoplasm is not easy.

After HIV - 1 enters a cell, it has to work its way through the cytoplasm to the nucleus.

«Something the size of a virus can not just diffuse through the cytoplasm,» Campbell said.

Certain organelles may have to work harder to make their way through cytoplasm, and may therefore feel more resistance.

Under a microscope, a cell's cytoplasm can resemble a tiny underwater version of New York's Times Square: Thousands of proteins swarm through a cytoplasm's watery environment, coming together and breaking apart like a cytoskeletal flash mob.

Not exact matches

But it's only because it's on the microscopic level that this structure can overcome the problem of maintenance: the molecules that control the wheel and axle reach it by diffusing through the cell's cytoplasm.

One key player may be a «motor» protein that shuttles molecular signals through a cell's cytoplasm, Yale University pediatric cardiologist Martina Brueckner and colleagues report in the 30 October issue of Nature.

They carry their own DNA, coding for 37 genes, which is passed down from mother to child through the mitochondria in the egg cytoplasm.

In May biologists at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey, reported that three of 16 babies born through cytoplasmic transfer at their center indeed carried mitochondrial DNA from the donor cytoplasm.

In particular, these characteristics determine how easily it can push against a cytoplasm's surrounding water and move through its ever - changing web of cytoskeletal protein structures.

This information flow may also be followed through the cell as it travels from the DNA in the nucleus, to the Cytoplasm, to the Ribosomes and the Endoplasmic Reticulum, and finally to the Golgi Apparatus, which may package the final products for export outside the cell.

When a sperm cell meets an egg cell (the oocyte), it burrows through the thick outer rind surrounding the egg (the zona pellucida), enters the internal cytoplasm of the egg (the ooplasm), and locomotes its male DNA — half of the typical number of chromosomes — to the female half within about three to four hours.

If you could take a cell from any organism — an alga, giant sequoia, condor, or your second cousin — and dive through its membrane into its clear liquid cytoplasm interior, you would find that all life as we know it shares the same building blocks.

In healthy cells, RanGAP helps transport molecules through nuclear pores that connect a cell's cytoplasm — the liquid that fills most of a cell — and the nucleus — the central compartment containing genetic material.

Confocal images show that hemocytes clearly locate and capture invading E. coli (Video S1) and optical sections collected at different focal planes through one hemocyte show labelled bacteria within the cytoplasm of the phagocyte (Figure 1D, E and F).

Inhibits the activity of dimeric NF - kappa - B / REL complexes by trapping REL dimers in the cytoplasm through masking of their nuclear localization signals.