(n.) That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.
(n.) A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart.
(n.) A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body.
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Brayer
Definition:
(n.) An implement for braying and spreading ink in hand printing.
(n.) One that brays like an ass.
Example Sentences:
(1) The alpha-amino group of Met-1 was relatively unreactive in both the free and bound protein, which indicated that the amino terminus is not as exposed in solution as in the crystal structure (Brayer, G.D., and McPherson, A.
(2) Dipolar paramagnetic shifts for protons of yeast iso-1-cytochrome c have been calculated by using an optimized g-tensor and the X-ray crystallographic coordinates of the reduced form of yeast iso-1-cytochrome c [Louie, G. V., & Brayer, G. D. (1990) J. Mol.
(3) One implication of our results is that the Brayer and McPherson model for the helical gene 5 protein-DNA complex, which has 5 nucleotides bound per protein monomer (G. Brayer and A. McPherson, J. Biomol.
(4) The deductions from nuclear magnetic resonance data are compared with the differences in the crystal structures of the reduced forms of wild-type protein and the F82S variant [Louie, G. V., Pielak, G. J., Smith, M., & Brayer, G. D. (1988) Biochemistry 27, 7870-7876].
(5) The data indicate that Ser 214, although conserved among serine proteases and hydrogen bonded to the catalytic triad [Brayer, G. D., Delbaere, L. T. J., & James, M. N. G. (1979) J. Mol.
(6) This phenylalanine residue has previously been shown to be invariant in all mitochondrial cytochromes c, located near the exposed heme edge in proximity to the heme 3-CH3, and may function as a mediator in electron transfer reactions [Louie, G. V., Pielak, G. J., Smith, M. & Brayer, G. D. (1988) Biochemistry 27, 7870-7876].