How to Use transcription factor in a Sentence

transcription factor

noun

• That doesn’t mean that fifteen years from now doctors will be able to prescribe a course of transcription factors to cure PSP.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2018
• Some of his recent work has involved a transcription factor called HIF-2.
  — Markham Heid, Time, 26 Dec. 2022
• The other pathway suppresses a transcription factor that seems to promote a longer life span.
  — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
• Dasen and his colleagues also looked at a genetic transcription factor called Foxp1, located at the spinal cord in tetrapods.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
• When Wuarin performed the isolation, the transcription factor had failed to appear.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2015
• This transcription factor upregulates the activity of 345 genes, most of them known to respond to salt, drought, and cold stresses.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 29 July 2022
• The mutation may be in a transcription factor that regulates the activity of EPAS1.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2010
• The Church lab’s key discovery was identifying a pair of proteins — known as transcription factors — that reprogram pluripotent stem cells into ovary building blocks in just five days.
  — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
• Frazer wanted to know how a heart-specific transcription factor called NKX2-5 influenced those traits.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 10 Sep. 2020
• One of these is NF-kB which is a transcription factor critical for the activation of the entire inflammatory pathway.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• These messenger molecules go on to act as the blueprints for protein production, so preventing a transcription factor from working can cause all sorts of problems.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2011
• This protein, or transcription factor, allows researchers to better control the T cell by inducing it to produce a specific protein.
  — Gregory Allen, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2022
• And although the activity of key transcription factor genes was similar in common cell types, the activity of other genes in some cell types differed more than the researchers expected between the two species.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 26 Apr. 2018
• The snapdragon gene in Martin’s tomato, for instance, is known as a transcription factor: essentially, a kind of volume knob that regulates how much of something a particular gene will produce.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2021
• Babonis found that a single transcription factor was enough to stop immature cells from developing as neurons and turn them into stinging cells instead, complete with a barbed, coiled filament for capturing prey.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021
• By injecting certain proteins (called transcription factors) involved in development directly into the brain, Götz and her team in Munich have figured out how to alter the function of astrocytes after an injury.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2018
• Scientists achieve this transformation by bathing the stem cells in a solution containing the right cocktail of transcription factors, molecules that guide fetal development by regulating how genes are turned on or off.
  — Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2019
• One example is phage phi29, which exploits its host’s transcription factor to detect when the bacterium is getting ready to generate a spore, or a kind of bacterial egg capable of surviving extreme environments.
  — Ivan Erill-University Of Maryland, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
• In 1988, Ueli Schibler, now a professor of molecular biology at the University of Geneva, was studying transcription factors, cellular actors that control the transcription of genes into proteins.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2015
• For example, one of the transcription factors, which regulate overall gene expression, that was most significantly upregulated is CUX2.
  — Angus Chen, STAT, 8 Mar. 2023
• Scientists have speculated that the activation of a transcription factor called STAT3 can induce advanced wet macular degeneration.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024