(n.) A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person.
(n.) The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow.
(n.) A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.
(n.) A young herring.
(n.) A fish; -- also called miller's thumb.
(n.) A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle.
(n.) A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus).
(n.) A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
(n.) A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut.
(n.) Clay mixed with straw.
(n.) A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
(n.) A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d.
(v. t.) To strike
(v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions.
(v. t.) To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) This fusion protein exhibited an in vivo endonuclease activity which specifically cleaved the intron homing site within the intronless cob gene.
(2) All of the pdu mutations were located in a single region (41 map units) on the S. typhimurium chromosome between the his (histidine biosynthesis) and branch I cob (cobalamin biosynthesis) operons.
(3) The apoprotein of yeast cytochrome b is translated on mitochondrial ribosomes and coded for by a split gene which is located in the COB-BOX region on mitochondrial DNA.
(4) The large deletion M9391 in contrast accumulates a 13S RNA which probably results from transcription through the junction, which ligates sequences of the cob leader to sequences of the cob-oli1 intergenic spacer.
(5) One of these is the group II intron in the gene encoding apocytochrome b (cob: intron cobI1).
(6) The organization of the mitochondrial genomes of the F1 and succeeding backcross progenies was analyzed and compared with the progenitor RD-WF9 using probes derived from the S1 and S2 mitochondrial episomes, and probes containing the genes for cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (coxI), cytochrome c oxidase subunit II (coxII) and apocytochrome b (cob).
(7) The transfer of the upper nucleoside ligand of adenosylcobalamin to 2-mercaptoethanol is a very slow process; S-adenosyl-mercaptoethanol and cob(II)alamin are the final products of the reaction.
(8) The vitamin B12 auxotrophs were divided into two major phenotypic groups: Cob mutants, which could use cobinamide or vitamin B12 to grow on ethanolamine, and Cbl mutants, which could be supplemented only by vitamin B12.
(9) We made specific mutations in the internal guide sequence and the flanking exons of the fifth intron in the yeast mitochondrial gene for apocytochrome b (COB).
(10) Continuous registration of breath, ECG, O2 tension was carried out in sleeping chronic obstructive bronchitis (COB) patients (n-46).
(11) Alfalfa had no effect on rate of nontreated cob cell wall digestion, but increased (P less than .01) the rate for NH3-treated cobs.
(12) In trial 1, two qualities of alfalfa and smooth brome hays replaced 0, 15, 30 or 100% of an ammonia (NH3)-treated corn cob negative control diet in a digestion trial using 26 mixed breed wethers (31.8 kg).
(13) They were shown to be P22-cotransducible with a branch I cob marker at a mean frequency of 12%.
(14) No inhibition by EDTA was found in cob parenchyma tissue.
(15) Although both copies are identical in the 5' upstream region and through most of the coding region, only cob-1-specific mRNA is detected on RNA gel-blots.
(16) To elucidate the synthesis of cobalamin coenzymes in view of comparative biochemistry, tissue distribution of activity of aquacobalamin reductase [EC 1.6.99.8] catalyzing the reduction of hydroxocobalamin to cob(II)alamin was studied in some vertebrates.
(17) The solka floc and corn cob diets are acceptable for growing dairy heifers where a low mineral content is desired but normal growth rates need to be maintained.
(18) Xylan in such natural substrates as straw and corn-cobs was also subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis.
(19) Regions that hybridized to C. reinhardtii or wheat mitochondrial gene probes for subunit I of cytochrome oxidase (cox1), apocytochrome b (cob), three subunits of NADH dehydrogenase (nad1, nad2 and nad5) and the small and the large ribosomal RNAs (rrnS and rrnL, respectively) were localized on the C. moewusii mtDNA map by Southern blot analysis.
(20) A 13.1-kb DNA fragment carrying Pseudomonas denitrificans cob genes has been sequenced.
Col
Definition:
(n.) A short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains; the pass over such a ridge.
Example Sentences:
(1) The serum levels of aminoterminal type III procollagen peptide (S-PIIINP), immunoreactive prolyl 4-hydroxylase protein (S-IRPH), 7S domain of collagen type IV (S-Col IV, 7S), and fragment P1 of laminin (S-Lam), which are associated with the metabolism of extracellular interstitial collagens and basement membranes, were measured sequentially for two years in 14 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients undergoing disease modifying antirheumatic drug treatment.
(2) Although plasmids Col E1 and RSF1030 have no extensive sequence homology, the RNA synthesized during RSF1030 replication has almost the same mobility as the Col E1 RNA on polyacrylamide gels and hybridizes to the Col E1 origin region.
(3) Strikingly similar findings were found by Fu and cols.
(4) Two of the targets we tested (SV-COL and SV-COL-E8) both highly sensitive to lysis, stimulated macrophage movement, inducing an "agitated" response.
(5) The adherent phenotype (COL-) is recessive, and all mutants analyzed belong to one complementation group.
(6) The ColE6 gene organisation, in the order col-imm-E8imm-lys, is identical to that found in the previously described double-immunity gene system of ColE3-CA38 (an RNase producer).
(7) On Monday, prosecutors told the judge, Col Jeffery Nance, that they hope to play a recording of the phone call, among others, to show a lack of remorse on Bales's part.
(8) A23187 increased SCC when applied to HCA-7 and HCA-7-Col 3 monolayers with little effect on HCA-7-Col 1.
(9) Fragments of Col light chain lacking constant region determinants but still capable of inhibiting anti-idiotype were produced by limited pepsin digestion of the light chains.
(10) In order to characterize further the ECM in the most commonly observed variant, the large light colony, specific antibodies to fibronectin (FN) and collagen types IV and V (COLs IV and V) were applied and observed with immunofluorescence microscopy and immunoperoxidase.
(11) Specific radioimmunoassays are available for Col 1-3 (P-III-P) and the Col 1 and Col 1-3 (P-III-P-Fab) peptides of type III procollagen and for laminin P1 fragment.
(12) The neutral lipid levels in both wild type and col-2 were decreased to identical levels when grown on glutamate as a carbon source.
(13) We investigated the role of the cytoskeleton in the germinal vesicle (GV) behavior of oocytes prevented from resuming meiosis by either activators of protein kinase A or activators of protein kinase C. A time-lapse microcinematography study demonstrates that GV immobilization by isobutylmethylxanthine (IBMX) is overcome by colcemid (COL), nocodazole (NOC), and taxol and that cytochalasin D (CCD) reversibly immobilizes the GV of oocytes treated with either IBMX + COL (or NOC) or 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), an activator of protein kinase C, known to allow a programmed GV cortical translocation.
(14) SDS had no effect on infected cells that did not contain the Col Ib factor or on uninfected cells with or without the Col Ib factor.
(15) Pulse-labeled colicin E1 plasmid (Col E1) DNA in minicells was examined to characterize replicating molecules.
(16) These results indicate that some ColV+ strains may be more sensitive to gastric acid and to phagocytic acidity than are Col- strains.
(17) Patients with pathogenic organisms had a 3.88 (odds ratio) or 2.27 (col-2 risk) higher risk of PID than those with negative cultures or exclusively apathogenic organisms.
(18) Segments of the replication control region of bacteriophage lambda (lambda) and lambda mutants defective in replication were attached in vitro to the phi80 phage vector Charon 3 and to the plasmid vector mini Col El (pVH51).
(19) The determination of Col 1-3 peptide of type III procollagen (P-III-P) in serum of patients seems to be a useful parameter of hepatic fibroplasia.
(20) Syn-and anti-benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxides elicit a concentration-dependent nicking of superhelical Col E1 DNA in an in vitro reaction monitored by agarose gel electrophoresis and electron microscopy.