(n.) A substance obtained by the reduction of gallein.
Example Sentences:
(1) In several of these neutrophil abnormalities, ie, neutrophil actin dysfunction, Chédiak-Higashi syndrome, and its "antithesis" described by Gallin and co-workers, the cellular dysfunctions were well documented but the molecular basis was completely obscure prior to cell biologic analysis.
(2) Consequently, the total amino acid sequence of the intact galline is concluded to be as follows: H-Ala-Arg-Tyr-Arg-Ser-Arg-Gly-Arg-Ser-Arg-Ser-Arg-Arg-Thr-Arg-Arg-Arg-Arg-Ser-Pro-Arg-Ser-Gly-Arg-Arg-Arg-Ser-Pro-Arg-Arg-Arg-Arg-Ser-Arg-Arg-Arg-Arg-Arg-Tyr-Gly-Ser-Ala-Arg-Arg-Ser-Arg-Arg-Ser-Gly-Gly-Val-Arg-Arg-Arg-Arg-Tyr-Gly-Ser-Arg-Arg-Arg-Arg-Arg-Arg-Tyr-OH.
(3) A specific stimulation of tubulin tyrosinolation in human neutrophils (PMNs) is induced by the synthetic peptide chemoattractant N-formylmethionylleucylphenylalanine (fMet-Leu-Phe), and this stimulation is closely associated with activation of the NADPH oxidase-mediated respiratory burst (Nath, J., and Gallin, J. I.
(4) Citrate ions bound specifically to the galline molecule, causing a conformational change in it.
(5) Partial amino acid sequence analysis of the 63-kDa polypeptide revealed that it corresponded to a 65-kDa human neutrophil cytosolic factor whose amino acid sequence was recently predicted from the cDNA clone (Leto, T. L., Lomax, K. J., Volpp, B. D., Nunoi, H., Sechler, J. M. G., Nauseef, W. M., Clark, R. A., Gallin, J. I., and Malech, H. L. (1990) Science 248, 727-730).
(6) Eosinophils purified from normal whole blood in gradients of Percoll by a modification of the method of Roberts and Gallin [1985) Blood 65, 433-440) had a higher rate of superoxide production after stimulation with phorbol myristate acetate than those purified from leukocyte-rich plasma in gradients of Metrizamide by the method of Vadas et al.
(7) Galline, a protamine from rooster sperm nuclei, has already been separated into its components, G-I-G-VIII.
(8) It uses small (200 microliter) quantities of heparinized whole blood and is simpler than the micromethod proposed by Buescher and Gallin.
(9) No data are available on the protamines of birds, with the exception of galline.
(10) In the absence of histone hyperacetylation, the fish protamines, salmine and iridine (32-33 residues), are relatively inefficient in disassembling nucleosomal core particles in vitro as compared to the large (65-70 residues), tyrosine-containing protamines from rooster (galline), squid, and cuttlefish which disassemble nucleosomes in a range of protamine concentrations close to physiological.
(11) Eight reverse turns were predicted to be present in the galline molecule on the basis of its amino acid sequence.
(12) Nicola Acocella Professor of economic policy, University of Rome , Matyas Benyik ATTAC Hungary , Nadezda Cacinovic University of Zagreb, Croatia , Mario Candeias Direktor des Institut fur Gesellschaftsanalyse, Berlin, Germany , John Douglas President, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Elena Frangakis-Syrett Professor of economic history, City University of New York , Dan Gallin Global Labour Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, Adoración Guamán Hernández Professor of labour law, University of Valencia, Spain , Jean Ziegler Former member, UN human rights council and 327 other initial signatories.
(13) The specimen of galline from sperm heads purified with 1% citric acid (the second procedure) was composed of only one component, which was isolated as a single peak.
(14) Consequently, it is concluded that intact galline is composed of only one molecular species and its total amino acid sequence is represented by the completed formula of G-VIII as shown in the preceding paper (4).
(15) The deduced amino acid sequence of this C-terminal coding region corresponds to the sequence previously described at the protein level for the chicken protamine, galline [Nakano, M., Tobita, T., and Ando, T. (1976), Int.
(16) Other fractions of galline purified repeatedly on the column of Bio-Gel CM-30 were submitted to structural analyses.
(17) Our results suggest that the binding of the avian protamine galline to chromatin could be directly involved in the rapid disassembly of nucleosomes that takes place during the nucleohistone nucleoprotamine transition in chicken spermiogenesis.
(18) This translocation, which appeared to take place without a major change in the size of the cytosolic complex, did not occur if the membranes lacked cytochrome b558, and was inhibited by the peptide PRGV-HFIFNK, a sequence found near the carboxyl terminus of cytochrome b558 that was known from earlier work to inhibit O2- production by the cell-free system (Rotrosen, D., Kleinberg, M. E., Nunoi, H., Leto T., Gallin, J. I., and Malech H. L. (1990) J. Biol.
(19) Galline, a protamine of domestic fowl, was obtained by two preparation procedures from the semen of a strain of White Plymouth Rock and submitted to fractionation by column chromatography on Bio-Gel CM-30.
(20) Of the eight fractions (G-I-G-VIII) obtained from galline, a protamine from rooster sperm nuclei, the complete amino acid sequences of two fractions G-I and G-V have already been reported.
Gallon
Definition:
(n.) A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.
Example Sentences:
(1) BP sprayed almost 2m gallons of Corexit on the slick and at the leak site on the seabed.
(2) Individual males held in gallon-sized containers inseminated as many as 10 females.
(3) On July 14, 1991, a train tanker car derailed in northern California, spilling 19,000 gallons of the soil fumigant metam sodium (sodium methyldithiocarbamate) into the Sacramento River north of Redding (Figure 1).
(4) Already the price of petrol has risen to at least $3.50 a gallon (94 cents a litre) – just over double Sunday's morning price of about $1.70 a gallon (45 cents a litre).
(5) A major 1970 oil spill in Ogoniland in the south-east of Nigeria led to thousands of gallons being spilt on farmland and rivers, ultimately leading to a £26m fine for Shell in Nigerian courts 30 years later .
(6) Satellite data, analysed by University of California at Irvine scientists, suggest that the state has been losing about 4tn gallons of water a year from the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins since the drought began in 2011.
(7) His shop was destroyed by water damage What destroyed my business completely was not the fire [next door] but the gallons and gallons of water which the fire brigade poured over the building.
(8) They replied that an average day’s drilling uses about 1,000 gallons of diesel.
(9) 25.4 cm) fiberglass depth cartridge and a 10-inch pleated epoxy-fiberglass filter in a series at flow rates of up to 37.8 liters (10 gallons) per min.
(10) "And just as cars will go further on a gallon of gas, our economy will go further on a barrel of oil."
(11) That's barely a quarter of the average daily use in the US , a global water-hog that uses nearly 500 gallons a day per capita (or nearly 600 US gallons).
(12) GRRRR," he guffawed, eyebrows wiggling lasciviously, before being ejected from Booty at 230mph courtesy of a broom and a gallon of budget acrylic nail glue.
(13) But the bigger question is why in a shortsighted attempt to reduce greenhouse gases by a tiny amount (diesel cars do more miles to the gallon) the risks were ignored, and customers persuaded that diesel cars were actually greener.
(14) That's barely a quarter of the average daily use in the US, a global water-hog that uses nearly 500 gallons a day per capita."
(15) The helicopters can haul up to 2,000 gallons of water.
(16) The nationwide average price of a gallon of regular is now $2.02 (£1.36), down 58 cents from this time last year, according to auto club AAA, and expected to fall further.
(17) The response of microorganisms to an accidental spillage of 55,000 gallons of leaded gasoline into an Arctic freshwater lake was studied.
(18) They could have taken a thousand gallons of water and just intercepted the fire before it got to my place.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Belles stands on a scorched hill overlooking his concrete dome house.
(19) A 14-year-old male drank two glasses of milk from a gallon inoculated with 21 vials of live virus vaccine intended to immunize 1000 baby chicks against Newcastle Disease.
(20) The plaintiffs claim Chevron's operations discharged billions of gallons of toxic waste into Amazon lands, affecting over 1,500 square miles of the Amazon, causing cancer rates to soar, destroying locals' livelihoods and habitats, and killing flora and fauna.