(n.) The name of the Greek letter /, /, corresponding with the English letter L, l.
(n.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull.
Example Sentences:
(1) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
(2) A disease in an IgD (lambda) plasmocytoma is described, where after therapy with Alkeran and prednisone a disappearance of all clinical and laboratory findings indicating an activity could be observed.
(3) A full-length cDNA encoding porcine heart aconitase was derived from lambda gt10 recombinant clones and by amplification of the 5' end of the mRNA.
(4) Approximately 90% of the patients have a lambda light chain myeloma protein and almost all patients excrete Bence-Jones protein.
(5) Three distinct G-proteins have been found in mammalian heart sarcolemma: Gi (alpha i = 40 kDa, beta = 36 kDa, and lambda less than 14 kDa), Gp (alpha p = 23 kDa, beta = 36 kDa, and lambda less than 14 kDa), and Gs (alpha s = 42 kDa).
(6) We isolated and characterized 22 strains with lambda placMu insertions in Lrp-regulated genes.
(7) By contrast, the concentrations of IgA1 kappa and IgA1 lambda in PBMC culture supernatants, both spontaneous and PWM-stimulated, were identical in patients and controls.
(8) Substitution of DnaK protein with that of the mutant DnaK756 protein blocks lambda P release.
(9) The coding sequence for Spirulina platensis acetohydroxy acid synthase (AHAS, EC 4.1.3.18) is shown to be contained within a 4.2 Kb ClaI fragment (ilvX) that has been cloned from a recombinant lambda library.
(10) Because the contour length of these loops was proportionate to the DNA content of the superinfecting lambda phage, it was concluded that the fibers contained DNA condensed 6.5-fold in blocks of about 250 base pairs.
(11) In these lines a new V gene (V-lambda-X), exhibiting less than 60% homology to any known lambda or kappa V gene, is rearranged to J-lambda-2.
(12) The chiral intercalators, at micromolar concentrations, inhibit the reaction of EcoRI, but for each enantiomeric pair it is the lambda enantiomer, which binds only poorly to a B-DNA helix, that inhibits EcoRI preferentially.
(13) The fusion was prepared in multicopy (pVLN102 plasmid) and low-copy-number states, the latter constructed as a lambda phage lysogen carrying a fur'-'lacZ insert.
(14) Rolling-circle replicating structures which represent late stage lambda DNA replication can be detected among intracellular phage lambda DNA molecules under recombination deficient conditions as well as in wild-type infections.
(15) Nuclease protection experiments show that Xis protein of bacteriophage lambda specifically binds attachment (att) site DNA.
(16) Insertion sites were strongly clustered within the target lambda repressor gene: however no sequence specificity determinants could be identified.
(17) The defective hybrid genome thus harbors two origins for SV40 DNA replication in addition to the leftward operator and the N gene of lambda.
(18) An argon dye laser system with lambda em=630 nm (400 mW cm-2) was used for PDT with a total light dose of 400 J cm-2.
(19) Therefore, it was suggested that deletion of a gene in the region of the chromosome from the position of the insertion of the lambda prophage through the thyA gene caused loss of an essential and diffusible function.
(20) Complementation of int function of prophages lambda and pi81 was demonstrated in the formation of stable lysogenics.
Lambdacism
Definition:
(n.) A fault in speaking or in composition, which consists in too frequent use of the letter l, or in doubling it erroneously.
(n.) A defect in pronunciation of the letter l when doubled, which consists in giving it a sound as if followed by y, similar to that of the letters lli in billion.
(n.) The use of the sound of l for that of r in pronunciation; lallation; as, Amelican for American.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lambdagt clones containing fragments of the Drosophila melanogaster genome were prepared and characterized by hybridization of their DNA with (I) lambdagt-cRNA; (2) lambdaC-cRNA; (3) Dm-cRNA; (4) the mRNA of D.melanogaster culture cells and (5) the stable cytoplasmic poly (A) RNA from the same source.
(2) Two lines of evidence suggest that this failure probably results from interference with expression of the lambdacI gene, which codes for repressor, or with repressor action:-(i) when a lon(-) mutant was infected with a lambdacII, cIII, or c Y mutant, there was an additive effect between the lon(-) mutation and the lambdac mutations upon reduction of lysogenization frequency; and (ii) lon(-) mutants permitted the growth of the lambdacro(-) mutant under conditions in which the repressor was active.
(3) The antigenic composition of the bacteriophages lambdaC1857 and lambdagt-lambdaC was investigated by modified immunoelectrophoresis in a 1,2% agarose gel involving 1% Triton X-100 and 0,25% sodium desoxycholate.
(4) Recombinant phages have been constructed in vitro by joining the smaller fragment of ribosomal DNA and the outer arms of DNA from the vector lambdagtWES-lambdaC.
(5) Approximately 6% of Escherichia coli K12 (lambda wild-type) cells whose prophage was induced by treatment with N-methyl-N-nitrosourea initiated plaques on E. coli K12S which contained wholly or mostly clear plaque-forming mutants (lambdac).
(6) The phages lambdaC1857 and lambdagt-lambdaC were shown to have identical antigenic compositions and to comprise three basic antigens, such as a1, a2, a3.