这种药物主要是通过抑制切割酶来起作用的，并且在2007年夏天该药已开始临床试验了。

That drug, which works by inhibiting the cutting enzyme, began human clinical trials in the summer of 2007.

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它们改变了这个酶切割淀粉样蛋白前体的方式。

They alter the way it cleaves amyloid precursor protein.

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目前发现的这个酶被命名为FAN1，它是一种核酸酶，能够切割开dna的核苷酸链。

The enzyme, which they named FAN1, appears to be a nuclease, which is capable of slicing through strands of DNA.

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Cutting involves enzymes called restriction endonucleases or restriction enzymes, which I've already mentioned and they have names.

切割用到的酶叫限制性核酸内切酶,或限制性内切酶,我已经提到过了,而且它们都有名字

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In this case, this particular restriction enzyme cuts symmetrically like this, but not at the same point.

在我们这种情况下,这个限制性内切酶总是这样对称地切割,但两条链切割的位点不一样

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If this was a sickle patient, so they had this gene instead it wouldn't get cut and when I went to look for that presence of that gene on this gel, it would appear as one large segment instead of a large one and a smaller one.

而如果是个镰状红细胞贫血的病人,他们的基因是不会被限制酶切割的,因此他们基因的凝胶电泳结果就不会呈现,一大一小的结果,而只有一个大的片段

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