Sentences with phrase «which precursor molecules»

It is responsible for most anabolic reactions, in which precursor molecules are joined together into larger molecules.

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In 2016, Cornelia Meinert of the University Nice Sophia Antipolis in France and colleagues showed that irradiated ice forms a cornucopia of molecules essential to life, including ribose, the backbone of RNA, which may have been a precursor to DNA (SN: 4/30/16, p. 18).

During synthesis, GDF8 or myostatin, is made as a precursor which remains in a dormant state with half of the molecule holding the section of GDF8 responsible for signaling inactive, says Thompson.

They also found that distant metastases and their precursors processed glucose through a growth - promoting series of metabolic reactions called the pentose phosphate pathway, which burns (or oxidizes) glucose - derived molecules into building blocks for tumors.

To demonstrate this versatility, the researchers tested their approach with a metabolic pathway that produces a molecule called shikimate, which is a precursor to several different amino acids and is also an ingredient in some drugs including the influenza drug Tamiflu.

Previously, researchers have shown that treating cells with neuregulin - 1, for example, dampens levels of amyloid precursor protein, a molecule that generates amyloid beta, which aggregate and form plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.

Dopamine, a molecule crucial for signaling between neurons, can not cross this barrier, which is why its chemical precursor, L - dopa, is used instead to treat Parkinson's disease.

This forms one of the precursor molecules, which is lead plus long oleate ligands, and a byproduct of water.

To produce triangulene, the team began with a precursor molecule called dihydrotriangulene, which lacks the reactive unpaired electrons.

Then, by systematically applying a range of monochloramine and dichloramine doses to pharmaceutical precursors, they were able to determine which molecule was the root cause of NDMA formation.

But unlike DNA, which has a single job, RNA can play many parts — including acting as a precursor for small molecules that block the activity of genes.

They were looking for a site with a venting process that produces a lot of hydrogen because of the potential it holds for the chemical, or abiotic, creation of organic molecules like methane — possible precursors to the prebiotic compounds from which life on Earth emerged.

Previous studies have revealed that exercise induces the production of irisin and its precursor molecule, FNDC5 (fibronectin - type III domain - containing 5) protein, which convert white fat tissue into beneficial, calorie - burning brown fat.

The initial work identified the precursor to GS - 5734, a small - molecule antiviral agent, which led to the effort by Gilead and USAMRIID to further refine, develop and evaluate the compound.

Enceladus Life Finder, which would fly through plumes multiple times to collect and characterize the molecules that are there — particularly complex organic compounds that could indicate precursors of life.

«We knew from our work in Drosophila that Zucchini functions at the initial processing step, in which long piRNA precursor molecules are cut into shorter fragments,» explains Haase.

However, one mass feature present at significant levels in bsl1 - 1 inflorescences, but not in the other samples, matched the exact mass of a pregnane ring - containing molecule, which is predicted as a cleavage product of 3 - β - ketone derivatives of BR and sterol precursors 5 - dehydroepisterol, 5 - dehydroavenasterol, 7 - dehydrodesmosterol, and 7 - dehydrocholesterol (Supplemental Figure 6).

Another novel biomarker is proneurotensin, the precursor molecule of neurotensin, which is peripherally released from the endocrine - like N - cells of the small intestine after fat intake (49).

«The great thing is, we can chemically tag the DNA precursors with a fluorescent molecule, which means when it is attached to the viral genome it will fluoresce, allowing us to detect it and visualize how it infects a cell.»

As a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Cori Bargmann's lab at the Rockefeller University, she showed that the nematode C. elegans produces a neuropeptide that is an evolutionary precursor of the mammalian peptides vasopressin and oxytocin, and mapped a neural circuit by which this molecule, nematocin, modulates mating behavior.

Consuming creatine increases the supply of the precursor to ATP, a high - energy molecule which actually gives you the energy to go through each rep you perform.

Eventually, more debris and enzymes spill into the joint fluid and destroy molecules called glycosaminoglycan and hyaluronate which are important precursors that form the cartilage proteoglycans.

Glucosamine is well - regarded as one of the precursor molecules of glycosaminoglycans which are, in turn, very important component of cartilage, the tissue that makes up the joints.

In Amyris's process, sugarcane stalks are crushed and the juices are then placed in 5,000 - liter fermenters with the company's engineered yeast, which makes a diesel - precursor molecule.