Sentences with phrase «yeast cells does»

«So, the flexibility of yeast cells does not arise from the activity or inactivity of a single gene,» project head at ISB, Dr. Aimée Dudley, explains.

An interesting side note: If you take a bunch of yeast cells and mistreat them (for example, place them in a blender) to release the enzymes, the resulting soup will still do the sorts of things that living yeast cells do (for example, produce carbon dioxide and alcohol from sugar) for some period of time.

Not exact matches

DOn't give it too much sugar because it'll create too much stress on the yeast cells.

But because yeast does not contain restriction - modification systems, such transplantation poses problems not encountered in transplantation from one bacterial cell to another.

Yeast cultures normally do not exceed 100 million to 200 million cells per millilitre.

She still does not know why he considered her at the time — «Maybe it was just my enthusiasm,» she wonders — but he nonetheless became her mentor as she studied the transcriptional activation of the cell - cycle regulated HO gene in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

This is because yeast is eukaryotic: its cells have a membrane - bound nucleus that contains the genetic material, whereas bacteria are prokaryotic and do not.

Before now, a lot of this epigenetic research had been done in yeast — single cell organisms that also use enzymes to lay chemical tags on histone proteins.

And if small RNAs influence cell division in humans as they do in yeast and Tetrahymena, minor disruptions in the machinery could lead to cancer.

They then replaced one of a living yeast cell's natural chromosomes with it — the first time this had been done in more complex cells with a nucleus.

«With the help of animal biologists, we found that chem7 had no effect on budding yeasts and human cells, which indicates that chem7 does not inhibit the cell division of animal cells.»

We used yeast — a system easily accessible genetically — and asked the question how does one part of the cell know what is going on in another part.

As do human cells, yeast also possesses so - called «fragile» nucleosomes.

The researchers looked at whether longer CAG repeats in ataxin - 2 made the yeast ALS cells worse, and found that they did.

Using DOS and small - molecule screening, Schreiber helped illuminate many cellular pathways, including the nutrient - response signaling network involving TOR proteins in yeast and mTOR in mammalian cells.

Right away the authors could see that the mutants that disrupted the ability of Ire1p to sense membrane disturbances also did not oligomerize under membrane - perturbing conditions in a living yeast cell.

Susan Lindquist, PhD, professor of molecular genetics and cell biology, and colleagues showed that an improperly folded protein in yeast cells clumps together and then corrupts other, healthy molecules of the same protein to do likewise, in a process much like the «seeding» of a crystal.

The researchers note that in the mammalian brain, whose cells do not divide, prions pass between cells and function as infectious agents; in yeast, they produce heritable changes from one generation to the next.

Capric and caprylic acid in particular have shown to exhibit the strongest anti-microbial and anti-fungal activities against candida species, and they do so by weakening and disrupting the yeast cell's membrane.

mTOR is found in virtually all multi-cellular organisms and indeed, many single celled organisms like yeast (where much of the research on autophagy is done).

It is literally defined as «self eating,» because when the body has no other fuel, it feeds its cells and does cleanup work by metabolizing cancerous growths, and breaking down yeasts, mold, fungi, viral, bacterial, and many other aberrant cells and growths.

More importantly, an evaluation of the dropping under the microscope after it has been stained with a special kind of stain called Gram's stain can be done to test for yeast, abnormal bacteria, and other abnormal cells.