(n.) A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.
(n.) Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.
(n.) Ambergris.
(n.) The balsam, liquidambar.
(a.) Consisting of amber; made of amber.
(a.) Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored.
(v. t.) To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.
(v. t.) To preserve in amber; as, an ambered fly.
Example Sentences:
(1) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
(2) These regions seem to be important in the activity of gpE, since amber mutations in these regions are suppressed on the average by less species of suppressors than those outside these regions.
(3) With plasmid pSB22 only amber suppressor strains of Escherichia coli lysed after heat inactivation of lambda cI857.
(4) After infection of a nonpermissive host with bacteriophage T7 amber mutant in any gene coding for a core protein, the resulting lysates contained more noncapsid assemblies of capsid envelope protein than did wild-type lysates; these assemblies had a mass two to at least 500 times greater than the mass of capsid I.
(5) In this work, a population of mutagenized G3:C70 alanine tRNA amber suppressors was subjected to a selection for mutations that compensate for the inactivating G3:C70 substitution.
(6) The complete transcriptional unit, incorporating the tac promoter and rrnB transcription terminators flanking the Pf1 coat protein gene, was excised from the expression plasmid and cloned into the intergenic space of bacteriophage R252, an fd bacteriophage that carries an amber mutation in its own major coat protein gene.
(7) This lustrous amber oil looks lovely and is commended for its "subtle", more neutral flavour.
(8) We recently demonstrated that the molecular lesion in a Chinese patient with nonfunctional beta-globin mRNA was due to the mutation of the normal lysine codon AAG at amino acid 17 to the amber terminator codon UAG, which prematurely terminates the beta-globin chain.
(9) Nina Pham , 26, was upgraded to “good” condition Tuesday, and Amber Vinson , 29, tested Ebola-free on Wednesday.
(10) Europe's first ruling on Brexit: it's masculine, unless you're Italian Read more EU diplomats speak, too, of genuine shock at proposals by the home secretary, Amber Rudd, to oblige British firms to disclose how many foreign workers they employ.
(11) Discontinuities of T4 DNA which are caused by excision of UV-damaged areas, by decay of (32)P atoms, or which are present in DNA from rII(-)lig(am) (-) phage produced in a host nonpermissive for amber mutants are all repaired by bacterial enzymes after infection in the presence of chloramphenicol.
(12) Amber Rudd, the energy secretary, has promised to reform the auction scheme but one of her ministers, Andrea Leadsom, welcomed this year’s awards, arguing they reduced costs for homeowners.
(13) Amber (UAG) and ochre (UAA) mutations are suppressed whereas UGA is not suppressed.
(14) Since April 1990, chest radiographs in the Mannheim clinic have been performed with a slit technique (Kodak AMBER System).
(15) Oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis was used to generate amber, ochre and opal suppressors from cloned Arabidopsis and Nicotiana tRNA(Tyr) genes.
(16) The full mutase gene sequence codes for a protein of 300 amino acids, and it includes two amber (TAG) codons in the open reading frame.
(17) These mutants have changes in the anticodon sequence (CAU----CUA) that allow them to read the amber codon and changes in the acceptor stem that allow them to bind to the ribosomal aminoacyl (A) site.
(18) Instead hundreds of millions of pounds will be paid out to big energy companies to keep open old power stations that would have been open anyway, and to diesel farmers to use ultra-polluting generators, and it is families and businesses who will pick up the tab through their energy bills.” Dustin Benton, head of energy and resources at the Green Alliance thinktank, said: “Amber Rudd deserves praise for deciding to phase out coal, and it’s now clear that she needs to reform our outdated capacity market.
(19) However, an amber termination codon within the variable-region gene segment prematurely terminates translation into complete heavy chain.
(20) Mean platelet number, % discs and pH were comparable for units triggering red versus green or amber lights.
Succinic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, amber; specif., designating a dibasic acid, C/H/.(CO/H)/, first obtained by the dry distillation of amber. It is found in a number of plants, as in lettuce and wormwood, and is also produced artificially as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(2) In addition, DDT blocked succinate dehydrogenase and the cytochrome b-c span of the electron transport chain, which also secondarily reduced ATP synthesis.
(3) Thus, succinate dehydrogenase is the first enzyme which has been shown to contain all 3 of these Fe-S clusters.
(4) Benzylpenicillin showed small inhibition against succinate transport and ticarcillin against sulfate transport.
(5) Studies with liver mitochondria prepared from lactating hexachlorophene-fed rats showed a 50-75% inhibition of respiration with succinate as substrate.
(6) These results suggest that energy obtained from succinate oxidation can be diverted from phosphorylation to support steroidogenesis.
(7) A plasmid carrying this mutation, along with wild-type genes encoding the c and b subunits, was unusual in that it failed to complement a chromosomal c-subunit mutation on succinate minimal medium.
(8) Lactate dehydrogenase activity decreased by 21% (P less than 0.001), whereas the activities of the mitochondrial enzymes succinate dehydrogenase, citrate synthase, and beta-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase increased by 24-55% in response to training (P less than 0.001-0.05).
(9) Malonate, at a concentration that was not totally growth-inhibitory (1mM) prevented the inhibition of acetate-stimulated isocitrate lyase synthesis by succinate, but fumarate still inhibited in the presence of malonate.
(10) The activity of succinic dehydrogenase, a mitochondrial enzyme, was decreased by the deficiency, but the activities of fumarase, sn-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, alcohol dehydrogenase, sn-glycerol-3-phosphate oxidase and fatty acid synthetase were unaffected.
(11) Paracoccus (Micrococcus) denitrificans and Escherichia coli oxidizing succinate rapidly ceased to reduce nitrate when oxygen was available, and equally rapidly commenced nitrate reduction when all the oxygen had been consumed.
(12) Insertion of the fusion-generating phage Mud1 (Ap, lacZ) yielded two similar isolates, DC511 and DC512, which were unable to grow aerobically on acetate or alpha-ketoglutarate but which could use succinate, malate, fumarate, glycerol, and various sugars.
(13) The histochemical activities of succinic dehydrogenase (SDH) and Ca++-activated ATPase (pHs 7.4 and 9.4) were studied in the larval tail musculature of Rana japonica, Rana catesbeiana and Rana ornativentris.
(14) The distribution given by succinate dehydrogenase was not the same as that given by cytochrome oxidase stained by a different technique.
(15) Ca2+ accumulation was completely prevented by the antioxidants promethazine and vitamin E succinate and was not linked to the inhibition of plasma membrane (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase and Ca2+ transport or to the depletion of intracellular ATP content.
(16) In the group given isoproterenol 10 mg.kg-1 the tissue adenosine triphosphate concentration was significantly decreased after 1 h and did not return to control values after 15 h. Phospholipase activity was increased and the activities of NADH-cytochrome c reductase and cytochrome c oxidase were significantly decreased after 15 h. The activity of succinate-cytochrome c reductase was not affected.
(17) The effect of NADH, succinate and ATP on the sensitivity of a number of energy-dependent functions of submitochondrial particles ot phospholipases A, C and D has been studied.
(18) The gabCTDP gene cluster, which specifies and regulates synthesis of the gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA) transport carrier, of glutamate-succinic semialdehyde transaminase, and of succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase, responsible for the uptake and metabolism of gamma-aminobutyric acid in Escherichia coli K-12, was cloned in vivo, using the mini-Mu replicon bacteriophage Mu dI5086 as the vector.
(19) The results showed that in these organelles K+ induces inhibition of the respiratory control; moreover, in submitochondrial particles potassium inhibits the rate of oxidation of succinate.
(20) The inhibition by an isatin-beta-isothiosemicarbazone acting on the complex III of the succinate oxidase system is relieved by TMPD analogous to antimycin A.