(v.) Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish.
(v.) The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike.
(n.) To cause; to make.
Example Sentences:
(1) The IDIR terminal sequences and those of group A rotaviruses (GAR) were similar in that each of the (+) strands began with "GG" and ended with "CC."
(2) Retinal projections were studied with autoradiographic and silver methods in the gar, Lepisosteus osseus, one of the two surviving members of the holostean actinopterygians.
(3) Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell mutant purine auxotrophs deficient in GAR synthetase (Ade-C) or AIR synthetase plus GAR transformylase (Ade-G) activities were transfected with this human GART cDNA subcloned into a mammalian expression vector.
(4) We have found that the antifolates methotrexate (MTX) and piritrexim (PTX) completely block the de novo purine pathway in mouse L1210 leukemia cells growing in culture but with only minor accumulations of GAR and AICAR to less than 5% of the polyphosphate derivatives of N-formylglycinamide ribotide (FGAR) which accumulate when the pathway is blocked completely by azaserine.
(5) In tests against other folate-utilizing enzymes, 11a and 11b were found to be inhibitors of glycinamide ribonucleotide formyltransferase (GAR formyltransferase) from one bacterial (Lactobacillus casei) and two mammalian (Manca and L1210) sources with 11a being decidedly more inhibitory than 11b.
(6) The depression of hepatic glycinamide ribotide (GAR) transformylase in rats exposed to nitrous oxide was prevented by supplying a formate precursor, methylthioadenosine.
(7) 10-Formyl-H2folate-Glu5 was a competitive inhibitor of thymidylate synthase (Ki = 0.16 microM with 5,10-methylene-H4folate-Glu1 as substrate and 1.6 microM with 5,10-methylene-H4folate-Glu5) and inhibited GAR transformylase (Ki = 2.0 microM).
(8) Anomerization occurs upon removing the O-isopropylidene group from either 7 or 8, so that the final compound (10) is an equimolar mixture of both anomers, of which only one is active toward GAR-transformylase.
(9) This restored 49-140% of the activities of GAR synthetase, AIR synthetase, and GAR transformylase in transfected cells when compared to wild-type CHO K1 parental cells.
(10) The oxyntomodulin contains 36 amino acid residues and its sequence is H S Q G T F T N D Y S K Y L D T R R A Q D F V Q W L M S T K R S G G I T. The composition of the glucagon is identical to the N-terminal 29 residues of the gar oxyntomodulin.
(11) The gene is functional when YAC DNA is transferred into GARS- or GARS-and-AIRS-deficient Chinese Hamster Ovary cells.
(12) The lateral-line system of gars consists of superficial neuromasts, which are arranged in lines termed pit lines, canal neuromasts and spiracular organs, which are located within diverticula of the hyoid gill pouch.
(13) Characterization of the chemical stability of PRA and Kequi for ribose-5-phosphate, NH3 with PRA will now allow detailed kinetic analysis of the newly discovered trifunctional protein containing GAR synthetase activity in addition to AIR synthetase and GAR transformylase activities.
(14) The avidin-biotin system was also useful, but somewhat less sensitive than GAR-enzyme conjugates.
(15) Similar results were also obtained for KBD estimation using the Garred model and KBD estimated during dialysate isovolaemia.
(16) Untreated, resuced and alkylated, S-sulfonated, or cyanogen bromide cleaved macroglobulin from the gar (Lepisosteus osseus) contained no polypeptide analogous to either catfish or human J chain by the criteria employed in this study.
(17) I suspect that messrs Fry and Connolly – who grew up watching this man segue from gar- landed stage-thesp to tireless campaigner (Stonewall, women's and children's rights) to Hollywood catnip to that dreadful position for anyone with a fine remaining sense of mischief: being on the cusp of national-treasure status – were equally conscious of the company they were in.
(18) The choleretic action of SSM-G was milder, but longer lasting than those of GAR-G and DAM-G.
(19) Using these hybrids along with another independently constructed hybrid, the GAR synthetase gene was mapped distal to SOD-1 and proximal to CP21G1(D21S60).
(20) Glycinamide ribonucleotide synthetase and GAR transformylase were separable only after exposure to chymotrypsin.
Gaur
Definition:
(n.) An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) The chromosomes of five gaur (Bos gaurus hubbacki) domestic cattle (B indicus cross B taurus) hybrids (three females, two males) were studied using the leucocyte culture method and centromeric (C) banding technique.
(2) The sites of low grade infection produced by the prior subcutaneous injection of E. coli culture or gaur faecal suspension were susceptible to superinfection by doses of F. necrophorum far below those required to infect normal tissue.
(3) Unexpectedly, the sequence of the flaD locus was identical to that of sin [sporulation inhibition gene; Gaur, N. K., Dubnau, E. & Smith, I.
(4) Chromomycin A3 banding of the mitotic sets of 10 species of Bovidae (cattle, wisent, yak, banteng, gaur, red buffalo, swamp buffalo, sheep, mufflon, and goat) serves to demarcate both centromeric constitutive heterochromatin and R-banding patterns capable of identifying all the chromosomes within a given complement.
(5) Idiopathic epilepsy was diagnosed in 3 gaur in a zoologic park collection during a 3-year period.
(6) In the present study the infective dose of the same strain of F. necrophorum was reduced by a factor of greater than 10(3) by suspending the fusobacteria in sub-lethal doses of 5% homogenate of gaur or wallaby faeces.
(7) The C banding patterns were useful in identifying the X and Y chromosomes and the inherited submetacentric autosomes from the gaur sire.
(8) The role of heredity in development of seizures in these gaur is unclear because of limited founder stock of gaur in North America.
(9) The sin gene is a transcriptional regulator that is required for the development of competence (N. K. Gaur, E. Dubnau, and I. Smith, J. Bacteriol.
(10) The herpesvirus from the Indian gaur and greater kudu and high passages (greater than 50) of the cell-free WC-11 strain of alcelaphine herpesvirus-1 also were inhibited in their replication by recombinant IFN of bovine and human origins as determined by a fluorescent focus unit (FFU) reduction assay.
(11) Results of serum biochemical analysis, CBC, blood lead analysis, CSF analysis, and necropsy were within normal limits in all gaur.
(12) Viral isolates from an Indian gaur (Bos gaurus), a greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) and two wildebeest (Connochaetes gnou) calves did not induce measurable interferon (IFN) in bovine fetal kidney cells.