Sentences with phrase «tim genes»

Studies involving mice also helped to answer a key question: What turns on the activity of the per and tim genes in the first place?

These experiments revealed that the CLOCK protein targets the per gene in mice and both the per and tim genes in flies.

The per and tim genes are active until concentrations of their proteins become high enough that the two begin to bind to each other.

The system had come full circle: in flies, whose clocks are the best understood, the CLOCK protein — in combination with a protein encoded by a gene called cycle — binds to and activates the per and tim genes, but only if no PER and TIM proteins are present in the nucleus.

Not exact matches

We knew this had to be a new gene, and we named it timeless, or tim.

We used the tim and per genes to make PER and TIM proteins in the laboratotim and per genes to make PER and TIM proteins in the laboratoTIM proteins in the laboratory.

PER and TIM block the ability of CLOCK to turn on these genes at the same time as they are producing the oscillations of the central feedback loop — setting up extended patterns of cycling gene activity.

He discovered a second clock gene, called timeless, that encodes another protein, TIM, which is required for a normal circadian rhythm.

That gene's protein, called TIM, works with PER to drive the clock.

More than half of Americans carry a variant of an immune - response gene, TIM - 1, that makes people much less likely to get asthma — but only if they have been exposed to hepatitis A.

Young then discovered another gene, called timeless, that expressed a protein called TIM, which works in conjunction with PER to build up and control expression of the period gene.

We can make copies of those 13 genes, modified in fairly obvious ways so that the TIM / TOM machinery will work on them, and put these copies into the chromosomes in the nucleus.