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Actinia
Definition:
(n.) An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidae. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.].
(n.) A genus in the family Actinidae.
Example Sentences:
(1) Equinatoxin, a highly basic protein extracted from Actinia equina, causes an increase in the survival time of mice bearing the ascitic form of Ehrlich carcinoma, whereas it has no effect on L1210 leukaemia.
(2) Equinatoxin is a lethal protein isolated from a sea anemone, Actinia equina.
(3) Equinatoxin II is a 20-kDa basic protein isolated from the sea anemone Actinia equina.
(4) A pore-forming, cytolytic and lethal polypeptide, equinatoxin II, from the sea anemone Actinia equina, was subjected to oxidation with N-bromosuccinimide to study the role of five present tryptophan residues in structure-function relationships.
(5) It is postulated that in Actinia equina there is a receptor for glutamic acid whose structural requirements for activation are met by comparatively few analogues of glutamic acid.
(6) The complete amino acid sequence of the cardiac stimulatory and haemolytic protein tenebrosin-C, from the Australian sea anemone Actinia tenebrosa, has been determined by Edman degradation of the intact molecule and fragments produced by treatment of the polypeptide chain with cyanogen bromide and enzymatic cleavage with endoproteinase Asp-N, thermolysin and trypsin.
(7) Equinatoxins were purified from the tentacles and bodies of the sea anemone Actinia equina by the use of acetone precipitation, as well as column chromatographies on Sephadex G-50 and CM-cellulose according to the modified method of Macek and Lebez (1988).
(8) Venom from the sea anemone Actinia cari was obtained by the "milking" method.
(9) A new cardiac stimulatory protein, tenebrosin-A, has been isolated from the Australian sea anemone Actinia tenebrosa by gel filtration and cation-exchange chromatography, followed by cation-exchange HPLC.
(10) Metabolic adjustments occurring during air exposure have been studied in a population of Actinia equina submitted to long-lasting emersion periods.
(11) Equinatoxin II, a pore forming polypeptide from the sea anemone Actinia equina L. was subjected to chemical modifications with group specific reagents.
(12) Glutamic acid occurs in high concentrations in supra oral sphincter preparations of Actinia equina.7.
(13) Three new proteins with cardiac stimulatory and haemolytic activity, designated tenebrosins-A, -B and -C, have been purified from the Australian sea anemone Actinia tenebrosa.
(14) The role of arginine and tyrosine in cytolytic properties of equinatoxin II, isolated from the sea anemone Actinia equina L., was studied by means of chemical modifications.
(15) Nematocysts of Actinia equina are stained black by incubation in 2% CoCl2 followed by an aqueous wash and H2S treatment.
(16) The chemical, physical and biological properties of the cytolysin tenebrosin-C from Actinia tenebrosa have been compared with those of equinatoxin II from Actinia equina.
(17) Lethal and hemolytic toxins were purified by acetone precipitation, Sephadex G-50, CM-cellulose and CM-Sephadex column chromatography from the tentacles and bodies of the sea anemone Actinia equina.
(18) The cytotoxic and cytolytic effects of equinatoxin II (EqT II) from the sea anemone Actinia equina L. were studied on exponentially growing and synchronized V-79-379 A cell line in culture.
(19) 258, 5574-5581] and is identical to a partial sequence (90 residues) reported for equinatoxin, a cardiostimulatory and haemolytic protein isolated from the European sea anemone Actinia equina [Ferlan, I. and Jackson, K. (1983) Toxicon Suppl.
(20) It broadly resembles cytotoxins from Stoichactis helianthus (helianthin), as well as similar toxins from a number of other anemones, namely Condylactis, Epiactis, Actinia, Pseudactinia, Tealia, Anthopleura, Radianthus and Gyrostoma.