What's the difference between jerkinhead and truncate?
Jerkinhead
Definition:
(n.) The hipped part of a roof which is hipped only for a part of its height, leaving a truncated gable.
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Truncate
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut off; to lop; to maim.
(a.) Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.
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(1) The relative potencies compared to insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF-2) in displacing [125I]IGF-2 from rat liver membranes were recombinant truncated IGF-1, 0.3% and recombinant IGF-1, 0.2%.
(2) When the transcriptional activity of these proteins was examined it was found that carboxyl-truncated Myb is more effective as a transcriptional activator than full-length or amino-truncated Myb.
(3) The vector is relatively small (6 kilobase pairs) and contains a portion of the L. seymouri alpha-tubulin gene positioned in-frame with a truncated neomycin phosphotransferase gene that confers resistance to the aminoglycoside G418.
(4) These plasmids allow expression of native or truncated forms of the enzyme and easy purification of the products.
(5) Both the intracellular and secreted forms of the mu chains were similarly truncated.
(6) A new alternative splice site was incidently found 81 nucleotide downstream of motif II in both normal and truncated 4.1 mRNA.
(7) The other chimeras accumulated in the plasma membrane, and truncated LEP100 was secreted.
(8) The main protein species produced from full-length and truncated forms of celE was around 40 kDa in size and had an N-terminal amino acid sequence corresponding to that derived for mature EGE from the nucleotide sequence; in addition, larger species of about 75 kDa, presumably corresponding to full-size EGE, were produced by E. coli containing the full-length celE gene.
(9) The truncated LuxR proteins showed little or no ability to activate transcription of luxICDABE, as indicated by using luminescence as a sensitive indicator of promoter strength in E. coli.
(10) The expression of keratin and differentiation markers was identical to that of normal keratinocytes, suggesting that psoriatic epidermal differentiation is not truncated in vitro as has been postulated to be the case in vivo.
(11) Actin also exhibited a clear dual wave pattern of transport that coincided well with that of tubulin, indicating that both actin and tubulin were the major components of both groups IV and V.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
(12) This truncated C8C8 ceramide was soluble in water (but was still able to cross cell membranes) and was utilized by the Golgi apparatus of living cells to produce water-soluble truncated phospholipids and glycolipids that were then secreted into the medium.
(13) Neither the source nor the role of this soluble, truncated form of the membrane receptor has been determined.
(14) It may differ from the Mr 35,000 form in glycosylation or carboxyl-terminal truncation.
(15) The low hormone binding affinities of the truncated receptors taken together with high affinity hormone binding to the N-terminal extension of the LH receptor indicate the existence of two or more contact points between the receptor and the hormone.
(16) We were unable to confirm the high frequency of truncated messages of 4.7R in RB tumors reported by Lee et al.
(17) A transformed cell line containing a truncated gag-abl-pol protein, p85, that lacks most of the FeLV pol sequences was obtained by transfection of NIH 3T3 mouse cells.
(18) The calmodulin-binding domain of the CYA 62 truncated enzyme was labeled with a cleavable radioactive photoaffinity cross-linker coupled to calmodulin.
(19) This truncated receptor, lacking a transmembrane domain, appears not to be expressed at the plasma membrane.
(20) A truncated anchor-minus form of the G2 glycoprotein was found to be secreted into the culture medium, but was retained in the Golgi complex when coexpressed with the G1 glycoprotein.