Sentence examples for binds to a stretch from inspiring English sources

Molecular biologist Antonio García de Herreros of Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, has found that in a line of epithelial tumor cells, Snail binds to a stretch of DNA immediately preceding the E-cadherin gene, thereby gumming up the works and stopping E-cadherin from being produced.

As shown previously, PTEN binds to a stretch of basic amino acids (aa 19 21) close to the transmembrane of NEP by electrostatic interaction [10].

T7 RNAP is an enzyme that binds to a stretch of DNA called the T7 promoter and starts the process by which downstream genes are transcribed to produce RNA molecules (which are subsequently translated to produce proteins).

Transcription is the first step in the process by which genes are expressed as proteins, and it cannot start until the relevant transcription factor binds to a stretch of DNA near the gene called the promoter.

The coat color in turn depended on how many methyl groups were bound to a stretch of regulatory DNA just upstream of the Avy gene, suggesting that the methylation status was inherited epigenetically.

The corresponding protein region (the homeodomain), about 60 amino acids long, binds to a short stretch of DNA in the regulatory region of the target genes.

RKIP binds to a 24 amino acid stretch in the N-terminal of the Raf-1 kinase which has a central element (SSYY) regulated by phosphorylation [ 164].

Each primer was designed to bind to a different stretch of the TGFBI promoter with each of these distinct stretches containing 2 3 possible methylated sites (boldface in Table 1).

During the initiation of translation in prokaryotes, the 3′ end of the 16S subunit of the ribosome is known to bind to a short stretch of nucleotides located about 5 7 bases upstream of the start codon.

If he's a perfectionist, it seems less because of an inner narcissism than a feeling that he's bound to a vocation stretching back through history and across art forms; he often finds himself searching for the right medium for whatever he's trying to say at the time: "It's not always clear what's going to end up where; not everything has to become an object, not everything has to become words".

Recombinant GST-PPIL1 bound strongly to a stretch of consecutive peptides in the array (Figure 1A, upper panel), indicating a linear PPIL1-binding epitope on SKIP.