What's the difference between few and oligomerous?
Few
Definition:
(superl.) Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people.
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Oligomerous
Definition:
(a.) Having few members in each set of organs; as, an oligomerous flower.
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(1) A single oligomeric structure was established for the purified receptor, composed only of 135,000- and 95,000-Da subunits, whose association was lost by denaturation in the presence of reducing agent.
(2) The antiserum has been utilized to investigate the oligomeric structure of the 38 kD polypeptide and the nature of its association with the rat liver nuclear matrix.
(3) These data indicate that alpha- and beta-subunits can insert into endoplasmic reticulum membranes independent of each other in an assembly-competent form and retain their ability for oligomerization after synthesis.
(4) In the case of oligomeric and multimeric proteins, folding and association of subunits follow a consecutive uni-bimolecular mechanism, the kinetics of which can be simulated with high precision.
(5) Dimeric and oligomeric circles were present in the kDNA of the blood and intracellular stages in much greater proportion than in culture epimastigote stages.
(6) However, previous hydrodynamic and gel-exclusion results clearly indicate that all three of these proteins are oligomeric under these conditions.
(7) Binding of aspartate does not change the oligomeric structure of the receptor, indicating that transmembrane signaling occurs within an oligomeric receptor of constant size.
(8) These results demonstrate the existence in lower vertebrate brain of a BuTX binding site comparable in size to the AChR oligomeric complex of electric organ and muscle.
(9) Discrimination between the two states of the membrane-bound coat protein (alpha-oligomeric and beta-polymeric states) has been achieved using high-performance size-exclusion chromatography and circular dichroism.
(10) By means of HPLC mono- and oligomeric carbohydrates are separated on silica, modified chemically with aminopropyl groups or impregnated in situ with an amine modifier (piperazine).
(11) It is speculated that this motif might be involved in TK oligomerization.
(12) Genetic and biochemical evidence for both complementing and temperature-sensitive qa-1 alleles indicates that the product of the qa-1+ gene is an oligomeric (multimeric) protein.
(13) The experiments suggest that the advantage of IgA for protecting mucosal surfaces, such as the respiratory tract, relates to the presence of a specialized mechanism for transporting oligomeric IgA across epithelial surfaces.
(14) T cell populations that did not constitutively express IgA receptors failed to bind IgA after prolonged incubation with oligomeric IgA suggesting that if such cells can express IgA receptors they require other signals to induce their expression.
(15) These results indicate that the functional high affinity NGF receptors consist of gp140trk homodimeric (or oligomeric) complexes.
(16) The kinetic pattern of isolated alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase suggests that the enzyme is a multi-step dissociating system characterized by different rates of oligomeric forms interconversions at various steps of dissociation.
(17) Dystrophin, the protein encoded by the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene, exists in a large oligomeric complex.
(18) These findings confirm data obtained from target size analysis of guinea pig lung beta-receptors in situ which suggest that receptors may exist as oligomeric arrays in the native membrane.
(19) Northern blot analysis of infected leaf tissue extracts revealed the presence of an oligomeric series of plus RNAs (of monomer size and greater) but minus RNAs were present only as high molecular weight species of heterogeneous size.
(20) The EGF-mediated preservation of binding activity and altered conformation may be related to receptor oligomerization.