(a.) Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. Diacid, Bibasic.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that in this cell type (i) somatostatin-14 is exclusively generated by dibasic cleavage at the Arg-2-Lys-1 site of the intact precursor with concomitant production of prosomatostatin[1-76], and (ii) no direct interactions between the monobasic and dibasic processing domains occur.
(2) Lysine uptake is inhibited by other dibasic amino acids, arginine and ornithine but not cystine.
(3) Translation of the cDNA revealed a 138-amino acid precursor consisting of the Mas-DH amino acid sequence bounded by dibasic amino acid processing sites, a putative signal sequence, and additional peptide sequence on either side of the Mas-DH coding sequence.
(4) Chromatographic separation was accomplished under isocratic conditions using a reversed-phase C-18 analytical column and mobile phase consisting of equal parts of 75 mM dibasic ammonium phosphate buffer (adjusted to pH 3.5 with phosphoric acid) and acetonitrile, with a detection wavelength of 220 nm.
(5) In the present series of experiments we have used a combined kinetic and genetic approach to establish that dibasic amino acids are also asc substrates, systems asc1 and asc2 representing the only mediated routes of cationic amino acid transport in horse erythrocytes.
(6) The biosynthesized precursor contains hormone and neurophysin sequences linked by a Gly-Lys-Arg sequence and undergoes enzymatic processing reactions which include endoproteolytic cleavage at the Lys-Arg dibasic sequence, carboxypeptidase B-like exoproteolytic cleavage, and enzymatic amidation.
(7) These results demonstrate that AtT-20 cells efficiently and accurately process prodynorphin at both dibasic sites and monobasic cleavage sites, indicating that the AtT-20 cells contain enzymes capable of cleaving the precursor not only at dibasic residues but also at monobasic residues.
(8) Maturation of pro-von Willebrand factor (vWF) to its active form requires proteolytic processing after a pair of dibasic amino acids (-LysArg-) at residue 763.
(9) From the deduced amino acid sequence, a biosynthetic pathway has been proposed that a prepro- form of porcine ET-1 is initially processed by dibasic pair proteolysis to a 39-amino acid intermediate form (big ET), which is then converted to ET-1 by specific proteolytic cleavage between Trp21 and Val22.
(10) Additional mitomycin admixtures were reconstituted with a buffer solution containing monobasic and dibasic sodium phosphate; these were diluted with 5% dextrose injection only.
(11) Lysine uptake is membrane potential sensitive and inhibitable by cystine, dibasic amino acids, and cycloleucine.
(12) The short form translation product should lack only an internal dibasic tetrapeptide.
(13) Esters of dibasic carboxylic acids show a minute but marked effect on the partition of proteins in general while malate and tartrate esters affect strongly the partition of chloroplast membranes.
(14) In addition to paired dibasic residues at the propeptide cleavage site, many proteins, including vWF, also contain an arginine at the P4 position.
(15) From these results it can be concluded that both the "dibasic" cleavage between vasopressin and MSEL-neurophysin and the "monobasic" cleavage between MSEL-neurophysin and copeptin occur within the granule compartment.
(16) Target compounds were made by treating N-(trifluoroacetyl)-14-halodaunorubicin (bromo or iodo) with monosodium salts of dibasic acids (malonic, succinic, glutaric, adipic, pimelic, azelaic, sebacic) in aqueous acetone.
(17) Lysobactin is a dibasic peptide with marked activity against Gram-positive aerobic and anaerobic bacteria.
(18) A small proportion of the VIP precursor followed a pathway in which the dibasic conversion site after PHM is not cleaved, as evidenced by the presence of a C-terminally extended form of PHM.
(19) These cultured cells, therefore, seem to be an excellent model system for the eventual elucidation of a) the inticacies of cystine metabolism and b) regulation of 1) the cystine-dibasic amino acid co-transporter system and 2) the development of the cysteine-glutamate anti-porter system.
(20) Lysine was reabsorped by a saturable transport system shared by the dibasics.
Replaceable
Definition:
(a.) Capable or admitting of being put back into a place.
(a.) Admitting of having its place supplied by a like thing or an equivalent; as, the lost book is replaceable.
(a.) Capable of being replaced (by), or of being exchanged (for); as, the hydrogen of acids is replaceable by metals or by basic radicals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thyroid replacement led to resolution of both apnea and depression.
(2) This may be due to efficient replacement of Leu by Phe at CUC (and, probably, CUU) codons throughout the genome.
(3) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(4) We recently demonstrated that functional change in SSI was possible simply by replacing the amino acid residue at the reactive P1 site (methionine 73) of SSI.
(5) Analogues of [Orn6]-SP6-11 have been synthesized in which the Met11 residue is replaced by glutamate gamma-alkylesters.
(6) In fact, the addition of conditioned medium obtained by 48 hr preincubation of isolated monocytes with 10% PF-382 supernatant (M-CM2) or the concomitant addition of supernatant from PF-382 cells (PF-382-CM) and from unstimulated monocytes (M-CM1) are capable of fully replacing the presence of monocytes in the BFU-E assay.
(7) Major plasma metabolites of quazepam were 2-oxoquazepam (OQ), obtained by replacement of S by O,N-desalkyl-2-oxoquazepam (DOQ), and 3-hydroxy-2-oxoquazepam (HOQ) glucuronide.
(8) Attachment of the graft to the wound is similar with and without the addition of human basic fibroblast growth factor, a potent angiogenic agent, to the skin replacement before graft placement on wounds.
(9) It was concluded that the detachment of the oxaloyl residue from oxaloacetate and its replacement by a proton proceed with inversion of configuration at the methylene group which becomes methyl during the hydrolysis.
(10) I f you haven’t got a family, you need that replaced in some way, that’s the most important thing you can do for someone in care,” says 24-year-old Chloe Juliette, herself a care leaver.
(11) It is an intriguing moment: the new culture secretary, Sajid Javid, who was brought in to replace Maria Miller last month, is something of an unknown quantity.
(12) Replacement of Na+ by K+ or Li+ did not alter uptake, whereas replacement of Cl- by HCO-3 or gluconate- reduced uptake by approximately 40%.
(13) He underwent a mitral and aortic valve replacement, followed by a complicated postoperative course.
(14) Substitution of NaCl in the extracellular medium by sucrose, LiCl, or Na2SO4 had no effect on glutamate stimulation of [3H]dopamine release; however, release was inhibited when NaCl was replaced by choline chloride or N-methyl-D-glucamine HCl.
(15) C. parasitica mutant strains deficient in the production of endothiapepsin (eapA-) were constructed using a gene-replacement strategy.
(16) Replacement of vinyl groups with bulkier substituents (hydroxyethyl or acetyl groups) decreases holoenzyme stability and catalytic activity.
(17) It became fully operational in 1975, replacing its predecessor the rubber bullet.
(18) The experimental results for protein preparations of calmodulin in which Ca2+ was isomorphically replaced by Tb3+ were obtained by a spectrometer working at the Institute of Nuclear Physics.
(19) The rate of indole production is increased about 4-fold when the aminoacrylate produced is converted to S-(hydroxyethyl)-L-cysteine by a coupled beta-replacement reaction with beta-mercaptoethanol.
(20) Ultrastructural study of the uterine lesion demonstrated smooth muscle cells with only a few "autophagic" facuoles to cells nearly replaced by lysosomes.