(a.) Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless.
(n.) The lapis lazuli.
(n.) The clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color.
(n.) The blue vault above; the unclouded sky.
(n.) A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
(v. t.) To color blue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Azure B also reduced the wet weight of carrageenin-induced granulomas in rats.
(2) Therefore, we determined the dimerisation constant (Kd) of azure B from the concentration dependency of its absorption spectra in water at the standard temperature T = 298 K (25 degrees C), Kd = 6.5 X 10(3) M-1 (experimental conditions: tris buffer, pH 7.2; concentration of Na ions, CNa = 0.002 M).
(3) The distribution of radioactivity as 5-, 10-, and 15-min intervals following the intravenous administration of N-14-C-azure C was determined.
(4) Analytical cytophotometry of azure B-stained heart sections was employed to investigate the pattern of myocardial ribonucleic acid (RNA) alterations in rats exposed to acute (1-2 days) and prolonged periods (1-8 weeks) of hypoxia exposure (380 torr).
(5) On optical analysis, the thiazin dye molecules (azure B, AZURE C and Thionin) are bound radially on the membrane.
(6) WEEKEND GETAWAY Côte d'Azur TO CELEBRATE THAT DEAL The spring tasting menu at Alain Ducasse's restaurant at the Plaza Athénée will set you back €360 ($520).
(7) Their Azure B- and fast green-staining properties indicate the presence of RNA and protein; they have typical nucleolar fine structure, including both fibrous and granular components; radioautography reveals that their patterns of uptake of uridine-(3)H into RNA are similar to those reported for nucleoli of other cell types; actinomycin D, at a level which selectively inhibits ribosomal RNA synthesis, greatly reduces their RNA synthesis and also causes segregation of fibrous and granular nucleolar components.
(8) Chromatography of Crotalus adamanteus venom on CM-Sepharose, Cibacron Blue-Sepharose and Phenyl-Sepharose, followed by gel filtration on Ultrogel AcA 44, has resulted in the isolation in homogeneous condition of a metalloproteinase active on casein and hide powder azure.
(9) Even so – banned from leaving Italy – he was not able to join the cast on the red carpet on the Cote d'Azur, nor will he join them anywhere else outside his native land.
(10) The protease hydrolyzed hide power azure and casein, but it had no effect on collagen, hyaluronic acid, complement or synthetic substrates for thrombin, plasmin or kallikrein.
(11) Her position is particularly delicate because her name has been mentioned to replace Le Pen senior as head of the FN list for south-eastern France’s Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur region in December local elections.
(12) In cells which had returned to interphase in the presence of actinomycin D, nucleoli were segregated into two components easily resolvable in the light microscope, and one of these components stained intensely for RNA with azure B.
(13) All mAbs inhibited both enzymatic activities of elastase and protease, in which elastin fluorescein and hide powder azure were used as substrates, respectively.
(14) The polyamide 11 alpha-amylase derivative acted on amylose-azure in the same way as the water-soluble alpha-amylase.
(15) Maximum activity was observed at pH 7.6 and at 30-35 degrees C using the chromogenic assay with chitin azure.
(16) Trustee and Non-Executive director, Azure Charitable Enterprises.
(17) Behind the gates of a multimillion-pound private villa on the Côte d'Azur, cases are being packed and travel plans finalised: after a summer in exile, Sir "Fred the Shred" Goodwin and his family are preparing to return to the UK.
(18) Measurements of nuclei in breast lesions were obtained with the Leitz TAS Plus on 4-microns sections stained for DNA with the Azure A Feulgen reaction.
(19) Ten of these, namely Methylene Blue, Azure B, Azure A, sym-Dimethylthionine, Azure C, Thionine, Methylene Violet Bernthsen, Methyl Thionoline, Thionoline and Thionol, have been identified by their visible absorption spectra.
(20) The surgical materials are rapidly frozen at - 150 degrees C, and serial sections, 10 microns thick, are cut in a cryostat at -18 degrees to -20 degrees C. The sections are adhered to cover glasses and stained with Metachrome solution (a mixture of 1% Azure A and 0.5% Erie Garnet B).
Azurine
Definition:
(a.) Azure.
(n.) The blue roach of Europe (Leuciscus caeruleus); -- so called from its color.
Example Sentences:
(1) The enantiomer of 1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethanol produced by 4EPMH was R(+) when horse heart cytochrome c or azurin was used as electron acceptor for the enzyme.
(2) In azurin, Cr(III) binds to the Glu-91 carboxylate approximately 10 A from the copper center.
(3) Pulsed laser excitation of the reduced azurin in the region of enhanced absorbance at 308 nm results in single photon, rapid (less than 30 ns) oxidation of the copper center and formation of the hydrated electron with a quantum yield of 0.05.
(4) We have determined the amino acid sequences of these blue copper proteins, and show that they are both true azurins.
(5) The Cu(II) sites of azurins, the blue single copper proteins, isolated from Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Alcaligenes spp.
(6) A calculated most parcimonious phylogenetic tree shows the divergence of the azurin and plastocyanin ancestor to be the earliest event.
(7) However, apo-azurin and azurin derivatives in which the copper was substituted by the redox-inert ions Ni2+, Co2+, Cd2+ and Zn2+, did not show any effect on the kinetics.
(8) In the presence of oxidized protein, the T1 values of this proton in reduced azurin depend on the lifetime of the reduced protein.
(9) Comparision of this primary structure with those of azurins, plastocyanins and stellacyanins reveals clear homologies among them.
(10) The effects of various metall-containing proteins (plastocyanin, plantacyanin, azurine and cytochromes of the f type) on the activity of photosystem I of chloroplasts, treated with polyene antibiotics, were studied.
(11) Amino acid sequences of 8 plastocyanins, 8 azurins, stellacyanin, two regions in human ceruloplasmin (ferroxidase)--all of which proteins are known to bind a blue (type 1) copper--and subunit II of bovine mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase were compared by statistical methods to assess similarities and derive possible evolutionary relationships.
(12) This protein also shows an increase of 20-40 mV in the reduction potential compared to the other azurins.
(13) A purification procedure was developed to isolate the azurin obtained from the E. coli cells.
(14) The temperature and pH effects on the fluorescence behavior of these homologous azurins are presented with the pH study suggesting an influence by a group which titrates between pH 5 and pH 7.
(15) The nitrite oxidizes reduced azurin and cytochrome c-551 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
(16) The protein, which does not contain arginine residues, has optical absorbance maxima at 287, 450, 597 and 750 nm and is generally similar to azurin.
(17) We previously reported the cloning and sequencing of a meningococcal gene (laz) encoding an H.8 MAb-binding protein with a consensus lipoprotein processing site, an N-terminal domain containing the epitope for H.8 MAb binding, and a C-terminal domain with extensive similarity to the sequences of azurins from other organisms.
(18) The azurin-encoding azu gene from Pseudomonas aeruginosa was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli.
(19) The identification of possible copper ligands in human ceruloplasmin was carried out by the computer similarity analysis for sequences of ceruloplasmin and several other copper oxidases: azurin, plastocyanin, superoxide dismutase, tyrosinase and hemocyanin.
(20) The results are compared with those obtained during a previous study of the reaction of reduced Pseudomonas cytochrome oxidase with oxidized azurin.