(a.) Winding or coiled round; curved into a circle; taking a circular course.
(n.) To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gyrate atrophy is a hereditary chorioretinal degenerative disease caused by a deficiency of the mitochondrial enzyme, ornithine aminotransferase (OAT).
(2) Modifications in quaternary structure induced by variation of these physicochemical parameters were followed by means of X-ray and quasi-elastic light-scattering and quantified in terms of weight average molecular weight (M), radius of gyration (Rg) and hydrodynamic radius (Rh).
(3) A case of localized chorioretinal atrophy resembling gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina is presented.
(4) The shape parameters of the two rRNAs, volume Vc, surface Oc, radius of gyration Rs, maximum dimension of the molecule L, thickness D, and cross section radius of gyration Rsq, agree within the experimental error limits.
(5) A Monte Carlo study of the distribution functions for the end-to-end distance and radius of gyration for hard-sphere models of poly(glycine) and poly(L-alanine) random coils has been conducted in the chain-length range n = 3 to 100 monomer units for both unperturbed chains and chains perturbed by long-range interactions (excluded volume effects).
(6) The radius of gyration of the unactivated holoenzyme determined from neutron scattering is 94 A, and its maximum dimension is approximately 275-295 A.
(7) The radius of gyration of tetrameric phosphorylase b was determined and found to be in excellent agreement with that of phosphorylase a, but different from that of phosphorylase b reported elsewhere (G. Puchwein, O. Kratky, C. F. Golker and E. Helmreich, Biochemistry 9 (1970) 4691).
(8) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
(9) The results of the synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering measurements showed that radii of gyration which reflect the size and shape of the enzyme were constant at around 38 A irrespective of the presence or absence of the K+ ion.
(10) A viscosity study of the PEGs showed them to be randomly coiled polymers, as their radii of gyration were related to the molecular weight by Rg = aM0.55.
(11) In the absence of calcium, the calmodulin molecule is shorter, the radius of gyration decreases to 20.6 A, and the maximum vector length decreases to approximately 58 A.
(12) The molecular weights of HA and LA pig mucosal heparins were found to be 14,900 and 11,500 and the respective radii of gyration were 40.1 and 33.6 A.
(13) Native human Glu-plasminogen (Glu1-Asn791) was previously shown to have a radius of gyration of 39 A and a shape best described by a prolate ellipsoid [Mangel, W. F., Lin, B., & Ramakrishnan, V. (1990) Science 248, 69-73].
(14) The radius of gyration and maximum particle dimension of the native enzyme are almost the same as those of the cobalt-enzyme but are shorter and longer, respectively, than those of the apo- and cadmium-enzymes.
(15) The hexokinase dimer found in the BI crystal form has a radius of gyration of 42 angstrom calculated from the atomic coordinates.
(16) The broadening of the 1H NMR signals is not due to oligomerization of the protein, since small-angle X-ray scattering experiments show that the average radius of gyration of the apo-g32P-(A + B) is 25.0 A and that of the reconstituted Zn(II)-g32P-(A + B) is 31.2 A.
(17) Mushroom expansion of the external granular layer occurred at patches producing a gyrating folial pattern rather than parallel ones.
(18) A reduction in the radius of gyration by 1-2 A on removal of calcium, previously observed in the native protein, was also found in the wild type and the Des4 mutant; however, no significant size change was observed in the Des2 mutant.
(19) According to this extrapolation, the cross-section radii of gyration of such a complex would amount to (R-c)b equals 0.805 plus or minus 0.015 nm and (R-c2)b equals 0.76 plus or minus 0.015 nm for the complex with actinomycin, and to (R-c)b equals 0.77 plus or minus 0.015 nm and (R-c2)b equals 0.75 plus or minus 0.01 nm for the actinomine complex.
(20) The ratius of gyration of the hydrocarbon region was 64 A, while that of the polar region was 100 A. consequently, the core of LDL is predominantly occupied by the hydrocarbon chains, while the outer shell is sparsely occupied by protein emerging from the lipid core.
Swivel
Definition:
(a.) A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.
(a.) A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; -- called also swivel gun.
(v. i.) To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Political policy is based on swivel-eyed assumptions and prejudices, rather than the world, evidence, the reality of suffering, the reality of global warming.
(2) If at times Van Gaal’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.
(3) It is likely that the target of camptothecin is the "swivel" topoisomerase required for DNA replication and that it is located at or very near the replication fork in vivo.
(4) The cannulation system consists of an injection port 'In Stoppers' as a flow swivel, connected to an injection needle, which is inserted into a polyethylene tube protected by a steel spiral.
(5) Inside Hall’s lair was a glass table on which lay his spectacle case and iPad (no computers for ranking BBC execs), surrounded by seats rescued from an old kitchen, and a pair of swivel chairs salvaged from Television Centre.
(6) And almost on cue, just after a minute, City nearly concede, a ball whipped in from the right by Tiote, Cisse meeting it with a low swivel on the penalty spot, Hart parrying well.
(7) That's slightly different from what Feldman said earlier this year after the Times and the Telegraph reported that a senior figure had said that Conservative associations "are all mad, swivel-eyed loons."
(8) These animals were tethered for periods of 14-70 h during which brain perfusates and peripheral blood samples were collected at 10- to 30-min intervals through the tether-swivel assembly.
(9) The asymmetrical swivel face-bow as described above is advisable to use because eccentric bendings and less forces at the outer-bows will decrease, stop or even reverse the asymmetrical effect.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Survivor of Bataclan attack: ‘it was a bloodbath’ He then swivelled and shot through a car drivers’ window.
(11) We discuss a model in which supercoiling changes are produced by differential swiveling activities on the opposite sides of a transcriptional flow during transcriptional modulation.
(12) It is the raging rows over Ukip, gay marriage, Europe and swivel-eyed loons that have given these people a political presence.
(13) Nigel Farage went down in the second round, gasping for air, eyes swivelling.
(14) It comes as a shock then to discover that in one crucial and fundamental area of social care the SNP resembles the "swivel-eyed loons" of the Tory shires.
(15) Osborne called it “fantastic” on 5 July, only to clash with Whittingdale who called the show “debatable” on 14 July, but who then, no doubt under pressure from his chancellor, swivelled, calling it “admirable” by 19 July.
(16) A new design of swivel walker for the severely disabled is described which has advantages over previous types.
(17) The key to this system is a swiveling guide tube held in a small, skull-mounted base by a low-melting-point metal alloy.
(18) Alejandro Faurlin fizzed a low shot wide after swivelling near the penalty spot.
(19) The overall system consisted of a harness and jacket, an umbilical and back pack, a combined electrical and fluid transmission swivel and a monitoring implant and catheters.
(20) The use of metabolism cage and swivel joint-equipped infusion system allows also continuous infusion of fluids in freely-moving animals.