What's the difference between actinia and actinic?
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.
Actinic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to actinism; as, actinic rays.
Example Sentences:
(1) By electrophoresis and scanning densitometry, actin was found to constitute about 4% to 6% of the total cellular protein in the human corneal epithelium.
(2) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(3) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
(4) The distribution of gelsolin, a calcium-dependent actin-severing and capping protein, in the retina of the developing and adult rabbit was studied.
(5) This doxorubicin derivative did not bind to Sepharose which was conjugated with cardiac actin.
(6) Peptides from this region bind to actin, act as mixed inhibitors of the actin-stimulated S1 Mg2(+)-ATPase, and influence the contractile force developed in skinned fibres, whereas peptides flanking this sequence are without effect in our test systems.
(7) The mechanical forces involved in neurite extension have begun to be quantified, and interactions between the actin and microtubule systems are being further characterized.
(8) The combined amounts of S-1 and Fab binding to actin suggested that the activation of the myosin ATPase activity was due to actin free of Fab.
(9) Actin is present in chromosomal spindle fibres, with consistent polarity.
(10) In a double-blind, randomized, within-patient comparative study, the efficacy and tolerability of Ro 14-9706 (an arotinoid methyl sulfone) in the treatment of actinic keratoses was compared with that of tretinoin (all-trans-retinoic acid).
(11) Cytoplasmic accumulation of such mRNAs as or c-fos, c-myc, beta-actin an ornithine decarboxylase occurred in serum-stimulated cells regardless of the presence of cytochalasin D, whereas that of thymidine kinase and histone H3 was blocked by the drug.
(12) Pretreatment of the cells with pertussis toxin inhibits the propionic acid-produced increase in cytoskeletal actin but not the decrease in intracellular pH.
(13) The skin lesions resembled disseminated subacute lupus erythematosus on clinical examination, but actinic granuloma or annular elastolytic giant cell granuloma was seen in biopsy specimens of the lesions.
(14) When SMCs were cultured in the presence of 10% plasma-derived serum, no proliferation occurred and heparin did not modify alpha-SM actin expression.
(15) In smooth muscles there is no organized sarcomere structure wherein the relative movement of myosin filaments and actin filaments has been documented during contraction.
(16) The results indicate that synthesis of lamellar bodies depends on an intact microtubular system, whereas secretion requires actin filaments in a functional state.
(17) The latter reaction is linked to a conformation change of the actin subunit that causes a destabilization of the actin-actin interactions in the filament, i.e., a structural change of the filament.
(18) We have used two monoclonal antibodies to demonstrate the presence and localization of actin in interphase and mitotic vegetative cells of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
(19) The observations suggest that these fragments induce a conformational change in the actin monomer that either increases the affinity or alters the kinetics of the terminal actin-actin bond.
(20) This kind of distribution of microfilaments was always associated with resorption lacunae, and F-actin, vinculin, and talin zones correspond roughly to the edge of lacunae.