Posts Tagged ‘protein’
This discovery could help develop new therapies based on inhibiting this protein, and aimed at slowing the progression of certain cancers A team of scientists who have participated in the Spanish researchers has shown that a protein in the testicular Leydig cells and some cancerous type is able to modify their morphology and mobility. …read the rest of this entry»
An investigation by the University of Navarra has identified a protein that could act as a diagnostic marker for lung cancer, in Navarre cause 18% of deaths from tumor.
Pamplona scientist Igor Hernández, has defended his doctoral thesis under the name ADAM8-Delta 14, is a molecule that is only detected in lung cancer cells and is used by them to activate the mechanism of bone degradation favoring metastasis and tissue destruction, as …read the rest of this entry»
It is key to treating diseases like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s
An investigation by the University of Haifa identified a protein essential to the process of memory consolidation in the long term key to treating diseases like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s. …read the rest of this entry»
The set of codons in DNA or mRNA. Each codon is made up of three nucleotides which call for a unique amino acid. For example, the set AUG (adenine, uracil, guanine) calls for the amino acid methionine. The sequence of codons along an mRNA molecule specifies the sequence of amino acids in a particular protein.
The protein produced by a gene
The process by which the information in a gene is used to create proteins.
A length of DNA which codes for a particular protein, or in certain cases a functional or structural RNA molecule.
The complete order of bases in a gene. This order determines which protein a gene will produce.
Portions of a gene which code for proteins.
A protein that facilitates a biochemical reaction in a cell. In general, these biochemical reactions would not occur if the enzyme is not present. For example, an enzyme can facilitate (also called “catalyze”) the destruction of another protein by breaking the bonds between amino acids. An enzyme of that type is called a protease.
