What's the difference between fusion and melt?

Fusion


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.
  • (v. t.) The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion.
  • (v. t.) The union or blending together of things, as, melted together.
  • (v. t.) The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To identify the NHE-1 protein and to establish its cellular and subcellular localization in the rabbit kidney, we prepared antibodies to a NHE-1 fusion protein.
  • (2) Three criteria of fusion ventricular complexes were found to be undiagnostic for right and left ventricular complexes in SVE.
  • (3) Furthermore, these data support our previous suggestion that the expression of human lymphoid differentiation antigens in human-mouse lymphoid hybrids is influenced by the differentiation stage of the fusion partners.
  • (4) Several technical advantages of this method of fusion make this approach particularly useful in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
  • (5) These differences point to the fact that the mechanisms that regulate satellite cell mitotic and fusion behavior are also not the same in all muscles.
  • (6) Expansion of the cell sheet following attachment, and the fusion of epiblasts advancing toward each other, does not require the presence of mineralocorticoid.
  • (7) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
  • (8) In the companion paper, we quantitatively account for the observation that the ability of a solute to promote fusion depends on its permeability properties and the method of swelling.
  • (9) Opsin becomes incorporated into the disk membrane by a process of membrane expansion and fusion to form the flattened disks of the outer segment.
  • (10) One mutant, BS260, was completely noninvasive on HeLa cells and mapped to a region on the 220-kb virulence plasmid in which we had previously localized several avirulent temperature-regulated operon fusions (A.E.
  • (11) Using a soluble ICAM-2 Ig fusion protein (receptor globulin, Rg) we demonstrate the costimulatory effect of ICAM-2 during the activation of CD4+ T cells.
  • (12) With thermosensitive mutants non-defective for G and M antigens, cell fusion is much more extensive at the non-permissive temperature (39-6 degrees C) than at the permissive one (31 degrees C).
  • (13) This suggests that the fusion protein traps the SII in nonstimulatory interactions and that antibody 2-7B inhibits SII binding to RNA polymerase II.
  • (14) Ca2+ has a central role in various cellular phenomena involving membrane fusion.
  • (15) Polypeptides of egg-borne Sendai virus (egg Sendai), which is biologically active on the basis of criteria of the infectivity for L cells and of hemolytic and cell fusion activities, were compared by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with those of L cell-borne (L Sendai) and HeLa cell-borne Sendai (HeLa Sendai) viruses, which are judged biologically inactive by the above criteria.
  • (16) Pulse-chase experiments showed that the ornithine transcarbamylase precursor and the thiolase traveled from the cytosol to the mitochondria with half-lives of less than 5 min, whereas the three fusion proteins traveled with half-lives of 10-15 min.
  • (17) The results of this study suggest that the effects of benzylated CD4(81-92) derivatives on HIV-1 binding or fusion should not be used to reach conclusions about the function of the corresponding CD4 region.
  • (18) Construction of a repR-lacZ fusion proved that the increase in copy number was due to a proportional increase in the amount of RepR protein.
  • (19) The best understood fusion mechanism is that of influenza virus, for which sequences involved in pH-dependent fusion can be correlated with the crystallographic structure of the spike protein.
  • (20) The fusion protein is incorporated into the virion, which retains infectivity and displays the foreign amino acids in immunologically accessible form.

Melt


Definition:

  • (n.) See 2d Milt.
  • (v.) To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.
  • (v.) Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
  • (v. i.) To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.
  • (v. i.) To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.
  • (v. i.) Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear.
  • (v. i.) To lose distinct form or outline; to blend.
  • (v. i.) To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
  • (2) The melting profile exhibited two transitions--one at about 35 degrees C and one above 50 degrees C. Our spectral data showed that helices I and II were stable during the first transition, and agreed with other data that helix III was the most likely helix to have melted.
  • (3) A compact attachment for microscope-type instruments is described enabling to introduce, rapidly and qualitatively, minute biological speciments into melted embedding medium and ensuring the safety of optics.
  • (4) However, significant differences in the formation and melting of the highly crystalline phase were evident between the two polar headgroup stereoisomers.
  • (5) The second step (50 degrees-54 degrees) involves the melting of the anticodon and miniloop regions.
  • (6) The melting of sea ice, ice caps and glaciers across the planet is one of the clearest signs of global warming and the UK-led team of scientists will use the data from CryoSat-2 to track how this is affecting ocean currents, sea levels and the overall global climate.
  • (7) The hybrids formed by the rapidly reacting fractions of both NRNA and mRNA melt over a narrow temperature range with a midpoint about 11 degrees C below that of native L cell DNA.
  • (8) It somewhat condescendingly divides the population into 15 groups – among them, Terraced Melting Pot (“Lower-income workers, mostly young, living in tightly packed inner-urban terraces”), and Suburban Mind-sets (“Maturing families on mid-range incomes living a moderate lifestyle in suburban semis”).
  • (9) SEM of the resulting surface showed rounded fragments of enamel rods, enamel melting, cracks, and smooth-edged voids.
  • (10) About half of Greenland's surface ice sheet melts during a typical summer, but Zwally said he and other scientists had been recording an acceleration of that melting process over the last few decades.
  • (11) Below-zero temperatures crowned the top of the US from Idaho to Minnesota, where many roads still had an inch-thick plate of ice, polished smooth by traffic and impervious to ice-melting chemicals.
  • (12) The decrease in melting temperature in DNA samples modified by N-AcO-AAF(DNA-AAF) was carefully reinvestigated.
  • (13) 3 For the dough: melt the lard with 100ml water in a small pan and leave to cool slightly.
  • (14) Both proteins are able to protect DNA against thermal denaturation, but the differences observed in the melting profiles suggest that they interact by different mechanisms.
  • (15) To measure the degree of wetting of the metallic phases, silver, tin, and copper were melted in such proportions as to give specimens of silver, tin, the alpha, beta, and gamma silver-tin phases, the eutectic in the silver-copper system.
  • (16) In contrast to the helix-destabilizing and distortive modifications of DNA caused by ultraviolet light or N-acetoxy-2-(acetylamino)fluorene, CC-1065 increases the melting point of DNA and decreases the S1 nuclease activity.
  • (17) The unsaturated drug-DNA complex melts through complex thermal transitions with one broad endotherm in the same temperature region as free DNA and the other at a higher temperature which is rf (mol ligand per mol DNA in base pairs) value dependent.
  • (18) Melting profiles of normal, hybrid, and double heavy DNA indicated a structural change of the double heavy DNA.
  • (19) But the crisis has left divisions more deeply entrenched than ever between the rich, Dutch-speaking north and poorer, French-speaking south, with melting pot Brussels marooned in the middle.
  • (20) The mutation in pro alpha 2(I) causes increased posttranslational modification in the amino-terminal half of some pro alpha 1(I) chains, lowers the melting temperature of type I collagen molecules that incorporate a mutant pro alpha 2(I) chain, and prevents or delays the secretion of those molecules from fibroblasts in cell culture.