Science news articles about 'quality control mechanisms'

... damaged but would still work fine if it were distributed, but in some individuals, the quality control mechanism insists on degrading it. It's the degradation of the protein, not the mutation itself, ...

... Furthermore, errors in transcribing RNA from DNA are frequent and require a variety of elaborate quality control mechanisms to prevent both mis-regulation of genes, and manufacture of aberrant RNA and ...

... www.fasebj.org), is significant because it shows a new way to manipulate the cellular quality ... }F508 CFTR protein to evade the quality control mechanisms that would have normally destroyed it. "Since ...

... at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered that an important cellular quality control mechanism may actually be toxic to some brain cells during prion infection. The research, ...

... in eventually treating the disease. The research suggests that activating the cell's protein quality control mechanisms may provide novel and effective strategies for combating Huntington's and other ...

... moment. This class of RNAs "could possibly participate more globally in a bookkeeping or quality-control mechanism by which the cell keeps track of the genes it is expressing -- its transcriptional ...

... the growth of bone cancer cells and triggers a quality control mechanism that causes abnormal cells to self-destruct. For some reason, however, Runx2 levels are dramatically reduced ...