The ability ofS. mutansto exert its pathogenicity is largely attributed to the production of EPS. EPS, a major component of biofilms38, consists of extracellular proteins, extracellular DNA, and lipoteichoic acid39. The primary component of EPS is glucan, which is synthesized by Gtf40, providing...
These effects may be resolvable in properties of reconstructed ancient enzymes. By use of paleogenetics, whereby the sequences of ancestral biomolecules are statistically inferred and resurrected in the laboratory, connections may be made between the global-scale effects of the Great Oxidation Event, ...
enzymes in your digestive system that break food down in your digestive system break food down into small molecules that can be absorbed by the body. Some enzymes in your digestive system break down starch, some proteins and others break down fats. The enzymes used to digest our food are ...
Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) have emerged as a promising tool in the field of regenerative medicine due to their unique therapeutic properties as they can differentiate into multiple cell types and exert paracrine effects. However, despite encou
However, when egg-laying female schistosomes are separated from their male partners and are surgically re-implanted alone into the host, they stop producing eggs and regress reproductively to an immature state similar to that found in females that are unpaired in vivo (Clough, 1981, Popiel et ...
How do receptor proteins block transcription? How is protein synthesis initiated in a cell? How do nucleotides get into the nucleus? How can proteins be altered after synthesis? How can DNA be extracted from a plant cell? How are DNA and RNA used in mitosis? Does it lead to synthesis of...
Carbon Transport Elixir's ability to get more proteins and enzymes to and into cells has a synergy withMetaCell Elixir. It gets more vitamins and minerals, oxygen and glucose, into cells. Their actions activate mitochondria function in cancer cells. ...
One of thedefining characteristics of proteinsis that they are polymers: long chains of chemicals called amino acids. Identifying the amino acids in a protein is fairly straightforward, but predicted their arrangement is much more challenging. It can take years of analysis to map out a protein, ...
As proteins are composed of 20 different amino acids as building blocks, the physicochemical properties differ from protein to protein, implying that for each protein the buffer for storage and formulation should be optimized specifically. DNA and mRNA on the other hand are composed of a mere four...
These families have different cellular roles and preferential substrate specificities. Topoisomerases are involved in a range of cellular nucleic acid transactions, including DNA replication, transcription, packaging, compaction, recombination and repair. Topoisomerases interact with various proteins in the ...