Drugs like the one Tanner Rico's mother believes he was given aim to restore the protein's production by fooling the cellular machinery.
Scientists thought for years that the protein's only function was to help shuttle cholesterol around the body.
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Both rely on having a protein's amino-acid sequence in the bag, and both have strengths and weaknesses.
In its unfolded state, a protein's backbone is exposed from its normal hiding-place deep within the folds.
The order of a protein's amino acids, by contrast, is relevant only in so far as it defines these shapes.
Kopito, a biologist at Stanford University, recently showed that clumps of the Huntington's protein can clog the cell's waste disposal system.
Land O' Lakes sells Omega 3 Eggs, laid by hens that ate feed spiked with Omega Protein's Virginia Prime Gold fish oil.
Dr Dobson and Dr Serrano have now shown that mutations, used judiciously, can actually suppress it and that they can do so without changing the protein's structure and function.
This is either because they cause no change in the composition of the protein that the gene encodes (some apparently different genetic words actually have the same meaning to the protein-making apparatus), or because the change they make has no effect on the protein's function.
Working with the geneticists' favourite animal, the fruit fly Drosophila, Dr Gibson has pinpointed a series of so-called cryptic variations that have no effect on a protein's structure, but can nevertheless, if the circumstances are right, have a significant effect on the individual they belong to.
They began by finding a molecule that would carry a novel amino acid to a mammal cell's protein factories.
If your cancer is HER2 positive, you may also be given a targeted therapy to attack the protein that's overproduced in these cancers.
Ribosomes are an organism's protein factories.
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Cohen took the malaria surface protein used in Ballou's vaccine and fused it to a protein from the hepatitis B virus, creating a harmless particle that looked like a virus to the immune system.
It is also important to eat adequate amounts of high quality lean protein like chicken, fish, lean red meat, lowfat dairy or protein supplements like soy or whey, because your body's ability to absorb protein decreases somewhat with age.
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The enzyme breaks up a virus's outer protein envelope into a mixture of mini-proteins known as peptides.
In whipping up a soy-milk-and-blueberry shake from Herbalife's ShapeWorks protein powder, Heber was also promoting the controversial dietary supplement company.
Dad started as a watch wholesaler in Rochester, New York, and bought into everything from fish protein to football's Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
As part of the FDA's domestic protein surveillance assignment, 63 samples of protein from Arizona, California, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Iowa and Minnesota have not tested positive for melamine yet, but 23 of those test results are pending.
Merck has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in using yeast for protein production, but Merck's yeast technology does not allow it to control the type of sugar structure on the protein.
He argues that the brain is armed with mechanisms for clearing the tau protein and that the reason it doesn't in people with Alzheimer's disease is because the protein is protecting the neurons.
He identified the jellyfish's other glowing protein, Aequorin, while doing his graduate work at the University of Georgia.
Another is that something else causes the lesions, and the tau protein is the brain's defence against that attack.
Steffen eats six small meals a day that almost always include protein, whether it's chicken, tuna, Greek yogurt or fish.
During hibernation, the levels of tau protein in a squirrel's hippocampal cells are directly correlated with the loss of synapses but not with the appearance of lesions.
Some of Ho's colleagues doubt that he has the right protein, but if he does, that could give Ciphergen's prospects a boost by providing proof that its technology really does work.
It trained the patient's own immune system to attack a protein called beta-amyloid that many scientists believe is implicated in Alzheimer's.
But in 1990 Genentech decided to focus on other protein drugs and canceled Patton's research project.
Tsien's version of the protein produces all of its light when hit by a single color.
"It's cheap, simple and protects wonderfully without side effects because it's a totally inactive protein, " she said.
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