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A431 cells were established from an epidermoid carcinoma in the skin of an 85- year-old female patient. Epidermal growth factor (EGF) stimulation of A431 cells induces rapid tyrosine phosphorylation of intracellular signaling proteins which control cellular processes such as growth, proliferation and apoptosis.
The oldest and most widely used expression systems are cell-based and may be defined as the "combination of an expression vector, its cloned DNA, and the host for the vector that provide a context to allow foreign gene function in a host cell, that is, produce proteins at a high level".
1281 12825 Ensembl ENSG00000168542 ENSMUSG00000026043 UniProt P02461 P08121 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_000090 NM_001376916 NM_009930 RefSeq (protein) NP_000081 NP_034060 Location (UCSC) Chr 2: 188.97 – 189.01 Mb Chr 1: 45.35 – 45.39 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Type III Collagen is a homotrimer, or a protein composed of three identical peptide chains (monomers), each ...
These edits in the genome of the hematopoietic stem cells are to reverse the effects of sickle cell disease. The cells are then re-administered into the patient. The hematopoietic stem cells are then able to produce red blood cells with the factors which promote proper red blood cell shape reducing the effects of sickle cell disease.
Defects in the CD43 molecule are associated with the development of Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome. [8] It also appears in about 25% of intestinal MALTomas. [citation needed] Using immunohistochemistry, CD43 can be demonstrated in the paracortical T-cells of healthy lymph nodes and tonsils; it is also positive in a range of lymphoid and myeloid tumours.
The gene encodes a glycosyltransferase—that is, an enzyme that modifies the carbohydrate content of the red blood cell antigens. The gene is located on the long arm of the ninth chromosome (9q34). [32] The I A allele gives type A, I B gives type B, and i gives type O. As both I A and I B are dominant over i, only ii people have type O blood.
Fibrinogen (coagulation factor I) is a glycoprotein complex, produced in the liver, [1] that circulates in the blood of all vertebrates. [2] During tissue and vascular injury, it is converted enzymatically by thrombin to fibrin and then to a fibrin-based blood clot. Fibrin clots function primarily to occlude blood vessels to stop bleeding ...
Alfred Gottschalk proved in 1957 that hemagglutinins bind a virus to a host cell by attaching to sialic acids on carbohydrate side chains of cell-membrane glycoproteins and glycolipids. [11] The name "hemagglutinin" comes from the protein's ability to cause red blood cells (erythrocytes) to clump together ("agglutinate") in vitro. [12]