1. Genetic disorders result when genes are altered and encoded proteins are unable to carry out their normal functions.
2. Those prion proteins carry the disease in transmission between individuals and cause deterioration of the brain.
3. One function of stress proteins is to guide other proteins across cell membranes.
4. Proteins in turn serve as building blocks and workhorses of the cell, vital to its structure and functions.
5. Cell adhesion proteins play a vital role in the developing brain, allowing neurons to migrate to the correct places and connect with other neurons.
6. They zoomed in on an enzyme called polymerase, which steers the cell's own organs to crank out viral proteins.
7. WASHINGTON - The AIDS virus has to hijack human proteins to do its damage, but scientists until now have known only a few dozen of its targets.
8. So it can act as a tracer to expose the movements of other, invisible proteins it is attached to as they go about their business.
9. Biotechnology drugs are made from proteins synthesized in living cells such as yeast and hamster ovaries.
10. The animals secrete in their breasts pharmaceutical proteins that can be used to cure hereditary diseases.