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Bilin


Definition:

  • (n.) A name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results indicate that an A-ring ethylidene-containing bilatriene is required for post-translational covalent attachment of bilin to apophytochrome and that apophytochrome may be the bilin C-S lyase which catalyzes bilin attachment.
  • (2) Some regions of the sequence are most similar to the retinol-binding protein, beta-lactoglobulin subgroup, while the disulphide bonding pattern is more akin to that seen in the porphyrin binding proteins insecticyanin and bilin-binding protein.
  • (3) Two of the free bilins were identified as 3(E)-phycocyanobilin and 3(E)-phycoerythrombilin by comparative spectrophotometry and high pressure liquid chromatography.
  • (4) Amino acid residues which might contact the bilin at each of the two variable sites were inferred by sequence alignment with phycocyanins.
  • (5) The evidence from the NMR data for all bilin peptides examined includes the dipoledipole interactions of the 5-H with the 3-H, 3'-H, and a pyrrole methyl group (7-CH3); the corresponding interactions would not be possible in a D-ring-linked bilin.
  • (6) Analysis of bilin peptides obtained upon tryptic digestion of the adduct showed residues alpha-Cys-84 and beta-Cys-82 to be the sites of bilin addition.
  • (7) delta-Aminolevulinic acid is the universal precursor for all tetrapyrroles including hemes, chlorophylls, and bilins.
  • (8) 6301 C-phycocyanin and the phycoerythrobilin-containing peptide beta-2TP from Porphyridium cruentum B-phycoerythrin indicated a different single thioether mode of attachment, postulated to be through the D-ring of the tetrapyrrole, in contrast to the A-ring linkage established for the other singly linked bilins in these proteins (Bishop, J.E., Lagarias, J.C., Nagy, J. O., Schoenleber, R.W., Rapoport, H., Klotz, A.V., and Glazer, A.N.
  • (9) Phycocyanobilin is the immediate precursor of the protein-bound bilin.
  • (10) Chromophore-containing peptides were produced by trypsin treatment and purified in order to isolate the individual peptide-bound bilins free of overlapping absorption.
  • (11) Immunophenotyping, however, showed extensive overlap of myeloid and lymphoid markers, confirming the leukemia to be biphenotypic rather than true "bilineal."
  • (12) Putative bilin-contacting residues differing between the two phycoerythrins were identified which may determine bilin specificity.
  • (13) However, these results imply that the information loss due to bilineality is not necessarily very great.
  • (14) The light-absorbing chromophores of the phycobiliproteins are linear tetrapyrroles (bilins) very similar in structure to the mammalian bile pigments.
  • (15) These measurements show that 62-75% of the phytochrome apoprotein in the soluble protein extract was competent to assemble with bilins to form spectrally active holophytochrome.
  • (16) In contrast, six bilins were attached to strain WH8103 and WH8020 PE(II)s. Five of these were at positions homologous to bilin attachment sites in other phycoerythrins.
  • (17) However, comparison of the bilins of Cr-PE 566 from strain Bermani with those of Cr-PE 566 of strain CBD shows that the two proteins carry different bilins on the alpha subunit.
  • (18) Two groups of ASP alcoholic patients were compared: (1) 11 high familial (bilineal) alcoholics, and (2) 22 low familial (nonfamilial or unilineal) alcoholics.
  • (19) Comparison of the bilin portion of the NMR spectra of the alpha-1 MBV and beta-1 MBV peptides to the NMR spectra of PCB and mesobiliverdin confirms that the bilin of the two adduct peptides resembles mesobiliverdin in having an extra double bond in the C2-C3 position of ring A.
  • (20) These results show that the major bilin products arising from the reaction of PCB with apophycocyanin differ from the bilins present in C-phycocyanin.

Blin


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To stop; to cease; to desist.
  • (n.) Cessation; end.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have examined the recombination potential of BLIN-1 by characterizing several independently derived kappa-expressing subclones for DNA rearrangement and V kappa gene usage.
  • (2) The BLIN-1 cell line is, to our knowledge, the first defined human model for examining this critical developmental stage in human B cell ontogeny.
  • (3) By polymerase chain reaction analyses, we detected transcripts from rearranged V-J-C kappa genes as well as transcripts from germline J-C kappa and V kappa in BLIN-1 cells induced to rearrange the kappa locus.
  • (4) Our collective results indicate that: (a) BLIN-1 can be induced to rearrange the kappa locus, and this correlates with the expression of germline kappa locus transcripts that may play a role in activating or targeting gene rearrangement; and (b) active rearrangement and usage of V genes representing different kappa families suggest that, like in the mouse, repertoire diversification in humans occurs in the presence of a fixed heavy chain rearrangement.
  • (5) Binding studies using radiolabeled IL-3 revealed the presence of approximately 200 high affinity IL-3 receptors on the BLIN-1 cell line, with a KD of 150pM.
  • (6) Analysis of Ig gene rearrangement and Ig expression in a series of BLIN-1 subclones show that the cells spontaneously rearrange kappa light chain genes, leading to the differentiation of surface kappa-negative pre-B cells into surface kappa-positive B cells.
  • (7) In an attempt to obtain a more reliable method of DNA purification we have modified the widely used protocol of Blin and Stafford to include a treatment with guanidinium thiocyanate.
  • (8) The human pre-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell line, BLIN-1, has been previously shown to undergo kappa light chain rearrangement in vitro, making it a valuable resource for analyzing pre-B to B cell differentiation.
  • (9) This cell line, designated BLIN-1, was initially established in tissue culture medium containing low m.w.
  • (10) BLIN-1 cells have a 9p chromosomal abnormality, identical to the abnormality present in the leukemic blasts from the patient's original bone marrow aspirate.
  • (11) The immunologic phenotype of BLIN-1 is consistent with a cell arrested at the pre-B cell stage of development.

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