(n.) A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus).
Example Sentences:
(1) The inhibitors tested in order of their decreasing effectiveness were alpha-1-proteinase inhibitor (alpha-1-antitrypsin), lima bean trypsin inhibitor, soybean trypsin inhibitor, Bowman-Birk (soybean) inhibitor, Kunitz pancreatic trypsin inhibitor, porcine Kazal inhibitor, and chicken ovomucoid.
(2) A bicyclic hexadecapeptide, which corresponds to the sequence 36-51 and contains the chymotrypsin-reactive Leu-43-Ser-44 bond of soybean Bowman-Birk inhibitor, has been synthesized.
(3) Fifty-five 7-week-old male mice were randomized into 11 groups and gavaged 5 days per week with purified Bowman-Birk inhibitor, Bowman-Birk inhibitor concentrate, and autoclaved Bowman-Birk inhibitor concentrate.
(4) The established sequence showed that RBTI is composed of 4 domains, domains I and III, and domains II and IV being homologous to the first and the second domains of soybean Bowman-Birk inhibitor, respectively, indicating that RBTI has a duplicated structure of the Bowman-Birk type inhibitor.
(5) There are regions of high conservation and high divergence within the 5' leader, mature protein and 3' non-coding regions of the Bowman-Birk inhibitors and in the genes which encode them in different members of this family within the Leguminosae.
(6) Therefore, R-BIRK functions as a basal-state enzyme and can be stimulated in an insulin-like manner.
(7) Inhibitor C-II was found to be homologous with soybean (Glycine max) Bowman-Birk inhibitor and more closely related to an inhibitor from garden beans (Phaseolus vulgaris).
(8) The structure determination and refinement are described, and the structure is compared to other structures of Bowman-Birk inhibitors as well as other families of serine protease inhibitors.
(9) The three-dimensional structure of the Bowman-Birk type proteinase inhibitor (PI-II) has been determined by x-ray crystallography and refined at 2.5-A resolution.
(10) Previous studies have demonstrated that the soybean-derived Bowman-Birk protease inhibitor (BBI) is effective as a cancer chemopreventive agent in several animal model systems.
(11) The trypsin-chymotrypsin inhibitors from dog submandibular glands, from soybeans (Bowman-Birk) and from chickpeas show strong interaction with these proteases (Ki = 10(-8) - 10(-9)M).
(12) Birke and Sadler (1983) showed that not only perinatal androgens but also progestogens such as medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) affect (in this case: demasculinize) the play behavior of both sexes in the rat.
(13) The effect of pH and temperature on the apparent association equilibrium constant (Ka) for the binding of the soybean Bowman-Birk proteinase inhibitor (BBI) and of its chymotrypsin and trypsin inhibiting fragments (F-C(p), F-T(p) and F-T(t), respectively) to bovine alpha-chymotrypsin (alpha-chymotrypsin) and bovine beta-trypsin (beta-trypsin) has been investigated.
(14) In the assay of two soybean trypsin inhibitors, the Kunitz and the Bowman-Birk inhibitors, two procedures were used: the current procedure in which the substrate is added last (the S-last test), after inhibitor is mixed with enzyme, and a new procedure in which the enzyme is added last (the E-last test), after inhibitor is mixed with substrate.
(15) The results for the total-body-irradiated mice receiving Bowman-Birk inhibitor concentrate suggested an effect midway between these two groups.
(16) ATI is the first Bowman-Birk inhibitor that has been found in leaves and is the only member of this family known to be regulated by wounding.
(17) The enzyme is strongly inhibited by aprotinin, diisopropylfluorophosphate, antipain, leupeptin, and Kunitz-type soybean trypsin inhibitor, but inhibited only slightly by Bowman-Birk soybean trypsin inhibitor, benzamidine, and alpha 1-antitrypsin.
(18) Emma Birks, 36, was a volunteer co-ordinator at a worker's co-operative in Birmingham before deciding to go travelling in south-east Asia.
(19) This intracellular protease was inhibited by the soybean-derived Bowman-Birk inhibitor (BBI), chymostatin, and L-1-tosylamido-2-phenylethyl chloromethyl ketone, all of which have anticarcinogenic activity, but was unaffected by soybean trypsin inhibitor, which lacks anticarcinogenic activity.
(20) The soybean-derived Bowman-Birk inhibitor (BBI) has been shown to inhibit carcinogenesis in both in vitro and in vivo model systems.
Birr
Definition:
(v. i.) To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.
(n.) A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel.
(n.) A rush or impetus; force.
Example Sentences:
(1) The community pays 1,200 birr for waste removal once or twice a month and has recently started charging outsiders 1 birr to use them.
(2) Education is free until the age of 17, when there is a 60 birr registration fee.
(3) I rummage through my pockets for the 1.5 birr (5p) fare as passengers clamber on and off at regular intervals before we reach the Bole bridge bus terminal.
(4) He is building himself a three-bedroom house with satellite TV and internet access for about 500,000 birr (£15,000).
(5) One of those labouring on the railway is happy enough with his Chinese managers, but says his fee of 50 birr (£1.50) a day is insufficient and that “there’s no safety” – recently four workers died when a hole they were digging collapsed, he says.
(6) People are arriving exhausted, scared and in increasing numbers,” said Bhajat Al Arandas, an official with Al-Birr Society, which is working with UNHCR to distribute aid to the refugees.
(7) They are doing daily labour work on a farm to secure their lives.” Another addition to the village, in 1998, was a 1.5m birr medical centre.
(8) The school owns three hectares (7.5 acres) of land and last year grew six tonnes of wheat, earning a return of 55,000 birr.
(9) Birr et al., have shown that the C-terminal region of thymosin alpha 1 is essential for the biological activity.
(10) But officials in this fast-developing city say they have a 100m birr (£3m) plan to build an extra 25 public toilets within the next year along with 103 community and 289 mobile toilets, the latter equipped for pregnant women and people with disabilities.