(n.) An ultimate particle of matter not necessarily indivisible; a molecule.
(n.) A constituent particle of matter, or a molecule supposed to be made up of subordinate particles.
(n.) The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule.
(n.) Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit.
(v. t.) To reduce to atoms.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has been conformed that catalase from bovine liver eliminates only the pro R hydrogen atom from ethanol.
(2) The results demonstrated that K2PtCl4 was bound to a greater degree than CDDP in this system with 3-5 and 1-2 platinum atoms respectively, bound per transferrin molecule.
(3) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
(4) The bond distances of Cu to Cl(1), Cl(2), N(3) and N(3') atoms are 2.299 (1), 2.267 (1), 1.985 (4) and 1.996 (3) A, respectively.
(5) The common atoms of the [3Fe-4S] and [4Fe-4S] cores agree within 0.1 A; the three common cysteinyl S gamma ligand atoms agree within 0.25 A.
(6) This result was confirmed by atomic absorption spectroscopy, which indicated a stoicheiometry for copper and manganese of approx.
(7) The inter-molecular similarity measure used is the number of atoms in the 3-D common substructure (CS) between the two molecules which are being compared.
(8) The risks are determined, mainly by expert committees, from the steadily growing information on exposed human populations, especially the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan in 1945.
(9) All N and O atoms except N(3) and O(4') participate in a three-dimensional hydrogen-bonding system.
(10) This suggestion is supported by EPR studies, which show that the iron atoms in Fe(III)L-globin are in two low electronic states.
(11) The molar refractivity has been shown to be a superior parameter for the description of the activity of sulphonamides than the sum of electronegativities of atoms making up a heterocyclic substituent in the sulphonamide molecule and molecular weight of the substituent.
(12) Binding to HSA occurs primarily with the imidazolidine and thiazolidine groups of levamisole as it has been demonstrated by selective changes in the relaxation times and the chemical shifts of the protons attached to the carbon atoms.
(13) Each repeat unit contains thirty amino acids and is thought to bind a zinc atom using two cysteines and two histidines as ligands.
(14) NADP+ bound at the C8 atom in the adenine moiety proved to be the most efficient ligand whereas that bound at the C3 atom of the ribose moiety was relatively inefficient.
(15) This structure is further characterized by approaches of both the carbonyl and the furan O atoms to ring H atoms with separations which are slightly less than the sum of the relevant van der Waals radii.
(16) The magnitude of improvement achieved is dependent upon field size, SSD, the atomic number of the foil material, and foil thickness.
(17) For the liver enzyme, the logarithm of the inhibition constant was linearly related to the number of carbon atoms in the saturated fatty acids whereas the muscle enzyme, which was generally more strongly inhibited, showed a nonlinear dependence.
(18) Results obtained from a such study are here compared with levels obtained from a comparative determination of the metals in the mosses by three other techniques: Differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (DPASV), Direct current plasma (atomic emission) spectroscopy (DCPS) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy.
(19) It was hypothesized that the observed activity variation of the paracetamol analogues was based on the relative abilities of these compounds to undergo H atom loss at the phenolic oxygen, and on the relative stabilities of the resulting free-radical species.
(20) The resulting family of structures has a mean backbone rmsd of 0.63 A (N, C alpha, C', O atoms), excluding the segments containing residues 45-59 and 84-88.
Silene
Definition:
(n.) A genus of caryophyllaceous plants, usually covered with a viscid secretion by which insects are caught; catchfly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of all materials evaluated, Xantopren Blue and Silene silicone impression materials provided the best results in vivo.
(2) Instead, mutation resulted in proteases with extraordinarily broad specificity profiles and high activity [Bone, R., Silen, J. L., & Agard, D. A.
(3) A cDNA clone (pFD1) derived from Silene pratensis ferredoxin mRNA was selected from a cDNA-library using the hybrid released translation technique.
(4) In Pisum leaf initiation is mainly the result of changes in the frequency of periclinal divisions at the leaf site whereas in Silene an increase in the rate of cell division seems more important since periclinal divisions are always present.
(5) 171:1320-1325) or in trans (Silen, J. L., and D. A. Agard.
(6) As far as the distance is concerned the results of the 21 subjects varied considerably; while some of the persons showed surprisingly good location ability, others supposed the noise to come from even outside the camera silens.
(7) Using this approach we have found that the thylakoid transfer signals of Silene pratensis plastocyanin, 23-kDa oxygen-evolving complex protein from wheat, and 33-kDa oxygen-evolving complex protein from wheat, are 25, 39, and 48 residues in length, respectively.
(8) alpha-Lytic protease is a bacterial serine protease of the trypsin family that is synthesized as a 39-kD preproenzyme (Silen, J. L., C. N. McGrath, K. R. Smith, and D. A. Agard.
(9) A survey of protein variability has been made in wild populations of Silene maritima, a perennial outcrossing coastal plant.
(10) A clear single processing intermediate, as was found with the import of Silene pratensis pre-plastocyanin, seems to be absent.
(11) Conformational properties and interactions with lipid membranes were studied for the chemically synthesized peptides PC(1-37) and PC(1-43), corresponding to the N-terminal 37 and 43 residues, respectively, of the transit peptide of the precursor to plastocyanin of Silene pratensis.
(12) In an oil painting by Rubens "The Drunken Silen" in possession of the Alte Pinakothek (old picture gallery), Munich, characteristic symptoms of hepatic insufficiency can be diagnosed.
(13) The precursor of the chloroplast protein ferredoxin from Silene pratensis was expressed in Escherichia coli.
(14) Longitudinal growth becomes dominant later in leaf development in Silene, as in Pisum.
(15) The precursor plastocyanin from Silene pratensis (white campion) has been expressed in Escherichia coli.
(16) This electrically silen 36-Cl flux was found to be about 10-3-fold larger than the chloride current calculated from the electrical parameters of the system.
(17) The distribution of the two alleles over chemical races of Silene pratensis in Europe is described; possible evolutionary relations between the various glycosyltransferases in Silene are discussed.
(18) An enzyme catalyzing the transfer of the glucosyl moiety of UDP-glucose to the 3-hydroxyl group of cyanidin has been demonstrated in petal extracts of Silene dioica mutants with cyanidin-3-O-glucoside in the petals.
(19) The occurrence in Pisum and Silene of periclinal divisions which do not seem to be related to concurrent outward growth suggests that the plane of division and the direction of growth may be controlled separately and in different ways.
(20) We have previously isolated mannoside and xylomannoside oligosaccharides with one or two terminal reducing N-acetylglucosamine residues from the extracellular medium of white campion (Silene alba) suspension culture.