Sentences with phrase «uridine by»

Particular cytidines in transcripts in chloroplasts and mitochondria of plant cells undergo modification to uridine by RNA editing (1).

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But she and her UPenn colleague Drew Weissman found a way to tame cells» typical inflammatory response by modifying one of mRNA's four building blocks, uridine.

A team of researchers led by neurobiologist William Carlezon at Harvard's McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, studied how omega - 3 fatty acids and uridine affect the behavior of rats using a standard depression test.

Liu and coworkers developed last year's base editor by combining three proteins: a cytidine deaminase, a natural enzyme that converts C to uridine (U); a mutated Cas9 CRISPR enzyme that doesn't cut DNA but uses an associated guide RNA to target specific DNA sequences; and a protein that prevents reversion of U back to C.

Glucose and inositol are oxidized in the liver to glucuronic acid and then bound into uridine diphosphate glucuronate (UDG), which is used by the enzyme uridine diphosphate transglucuronylase to convert 2 - OH estrone, 4 - OH estrone, 16α - OH estrone, estradiol or estriol into water - soluble glucuronides, which can be excreted through the urine as well as bile.

Polysaccharides and glycans are made by the sequential addition of monosaccharides by glycosyltransferase from a reactive sugar - phosphate donor such as uridine diphosphate glucose (UDP - glucose) to an acceptor hydroxyl group on the growing polysaccharide.