(n.) A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
(n.) The fruit of leguminous plants, as peas, beans, lupines; pulse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Several oilseed and legume protein products were fed to rats as the sole source of dietary protein, and in blends with cereals for the determination of protein efficiency ratio (PER) and biological availability of amino acids.
(2) The processes of germination and gruel preparation of germinated materials contributed to the digestibility of weaning foods prepared from cereals and legumes.
(3) Because diglyceride metabolism and cyclic beta-1,2-glucan biosynthesis are metabolically linked, future studies with diacylglycerol kinase mutants of R. meliloti 1021 should further elucidate the roles of the cyclic beta-1,2-glucans in the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis.
(4) In cereals and legume seeds the activity of chymotrypsin inhibitors is generally lower than that of the trypsin inhibitors.
(5) This nonapeptide was aligned in a part of the metal-binding region conserved in all legume lectins.
(6) Twenty-three fruits, 33 vegetables, 41 grain products, 7 legumes, 4 nuts, and 9 miscellaneous foods were analyzed by an accurate chemical method to determine their dietary fiber content and composition.
(7) On every specimen of legume we have tried to confirm, or otherwise, the presence of A. flavus and the aflatoxins.
(8) passing through a 1.18 mm sieve during wet sieving) from the reticulo-rumen were negatively related to dimensions of particles, with greater ease of outflow for legume than for grass particles of the same length or diameter.
(9) The use of vegetable proteins such as legumes or oilseeds proteins is often restricted by antinutritional or toxic factors.
(10) Foods such as legumes appear to be digested less rapidly than many cereal foods although even amongst these large differences in rates of in vitro digestion exist.
(11) (2) Individuals having IgE-mediated reactions to legume proteins, for example peanut and soybean, do not respond to the corresponding oil derived from those substances.
(12) Some legume species also contain chemicals of a different nature (i. e. lathyrogens, cyanogenetic glycosides, and others) which may be extremely toxic when ingested in significant amounts.
(13) The location of the metal and carbohydrate binding sites, established unequivocally in concanavalin A by high resolution X-ray crystallography, appears to be the same in the other legume lectins.
(14) Only a few foods and nutrients show marginal low intakes (fish, eggs and legumes; lipids, iron, thiamin and vitamin A).
(15) The antigenic specificity was also tested against subunits of 13 completely sequenced legume lectins separated by sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and electrotransferred to nitrocellulose filters.
(16) Studies of diabetes using high fibre, high legume diets have almost uniformly noted improvements in glycemic control and blood lipid profile.
(17) The intimate association between the Rhizobium and the host nodule cell was compared with the Rhizobium association found in legumes.
(18) Also, the effects of a casein habitual diet or of one of three casein-legume habitual diets fed before and after the test meal were investigated.
(19) Foods causing most prominent symptoms among patients in group A included legumes, tree nuts, crustaceans, and fish.
(20) retained on a 1.18 mm sieve during wet sieving) to breakdown (chews per g LP breakdown) during eating was lower for leaf than stem fractions (8.4 v. 23.7) and lower for the grass than legume diets (10.5 v. 21.6).
Mannose
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Mannose receptor mediated uptake by the reticuloendothelial system has been suggested as an explanation for the rapid removal of ricin A chain antibody conjugates from the circulation after their administration.
(2) As a group, the three mammalian proteins resemble bovine serum conglutinin and behave as lectins with rather broad sugar specificities directed at certain non-reducing terminal N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, glucose and fucose residues, but with subtle differences in fine specificities.
(3) The intracellular levels of the 6-phosphates of glucose, fructose, and mannose did not increase in the presence of 2-dG.
(4) The expression of both mannose-binding proteins A and C mRNA is restricted to the liver under basal and stress conditions.
(5) (3) What role does the mannose-6-phosphate receptor (M6PR) system play in the delivery of MPO to the lysosome?
(6) This pattern of stimulation suggests that extracts of sec53 cells are deficient in phosphomannomutase activity or in the production of a precursor of mannose 1-phosphate.
(7) Most notable was an average twofold increase in the relative amount of high mannose glycopeptides compared to complex glycopeptides for the leukemic cells.
(8) This result indicates that part of 5'-nucleotidase keeps one or two high-mannose or hybrid chains in the mature form, even after prolonged pulse-chase labeling.
(9) Electron microscopy revealed an absolute correlation between expression of four plasmid-dependent, temperature-inducible properties related to the bacterial surface: (i) a fibrillar matrix covering the outer membrane, (ii) outer membrane protein YOP1, (iii) spontaneous autoagglutination, and (iv) mannose-resistant hemagglutination of guinea pig erythrocytes.
(10) Glycosylated proteins such as HRP, DHRP, and mannosylated bovine serum albumin (M-BSA) are known to bind to mannose receptors (mannosyl-fucosyl receptor [MFR]) on the surface of M phi.
(11) [2-3H]Mannose incorporation into cerebellar glycoproteins was greater in malnourished rats during the period of brain growth spurt than in normally fed rats at all ages studied.
(12) In summary, these studies show: 1) that the H-35 cell IGF-II receptor is synthesized first as a 245-kDa precursor having 4-6 high-mannose oligosaccharide side chains, 2) processing of the receptor oligosaccharides by mannose removal and terminal sialylation converts the 245-kDa precursor to the 250-kDa mature product which has been previously identified as the functional receptor in the plasma membrane, 3) the apparent molecular mass of the receptor in the absence of N-glycosylation is 232-kDa, and 4) glycosylation of the IGF-II receptor is required for the acquisition of IGF-II binding activity.
(13) precursor phaseolin) is incubated with jack bean alpha-mannosidase show that the high mannose glycan on Asn252, but not the one on Asn341, is susceptible to enzyme degradation.
(14) Control experiments with other constructs (e.g., allopurinol riboside linked to the mannose-free polymer) confirmed that the enhancement of activity was indeed achieved by means of the mannose homing device.
(15) In addition other relevant carbohydrate components like ribose, mannose, galactose and glucose can be determined simultaneously.
(16) The O-polysaccharide was found to be a high molecular weight polymer of a repeating pentasaccharide unit composed of D-mannose, D-galactose, L-rhamnose, 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose, and 2-acetamido-2,3-dideoxy-3-formamido-D-rhamnose residues (1:1:1:1:1) and had the structure: [formula: see text]
(17) This study demonstrates that extracts of 15B cells, in contrast to the parent cell line, do not transfer N-acetylglucosamine residues from UDP-GlcNAc to certain glycopeptide and glycoprotein acceptors containing terminal nonreducing alpha-linked mannose residues.
(18) Administration of different brain fuels--glucose, mannose, fructose, or the ketone beta-hydroxybutyrate--reduced hippocampal damage induced by coadministration of GCs and either of 2 different neurotoxins (kainic acid and 3-acetylpyridine).
(19) Most of the enzyme produced by cells is secreted into the growth medium and is extensively glycosylated with a series of short O-linked mannose oligosaccharides ranging in size from Man2 to Man5.
(20) The content of high-mannose-type oligosaccharides was comparable to that of the complex type in normal thyroglobulins.