(a.) Capable of being neutralized by a univalent base or basic radical; having but one acid hydrogen atom to be replaced; -- said of acids; as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that in this cell type (i) somatostatin-14 is exclusively generated by dibasic cleavage at the Arg-2-Lys-1 site of the intact precursor with concomitant production of prosomatostatin[1-76], and (ii) no direct interactions between the monobasic and dibasic processing domains occur.
(2) At 95 degrees C in the denatured form cytosine residues titrated as a simple monobasic acid of pK3.9 compared with pK approximately 2.5 for the native form at 25 degrees C. 2.
(3) These results demonstrate that AtT-20 cells efficiently and accurately process prodynorphin at both dibasic sites and monobasic cleavage sites, indicating that the AtT-20 cells contain enzymes capable of cleaving the precursor not only at dibasic residues but also at monobasic residues.
(4) Apurinic sites were introduced to dGpdG, dGpdT, dTpdG and pdGpdG by HCl hydrolysis and the cleavage of the phosphodiester bond was measured in the monobase dinucleotides by HPLC.
(5) Additional mitomycin admixtures were reconstituted with a buffer solution containing monobasic and dibasic sodium phosphate; these were diluted with 5% dextrose injection only.
(6) Comparison of amino acids around the monobasic cleavage sites suggests that these cleavages follow certain sequence motifs and can be described as the rules that govern monobasic cleavages: (i) a basic amino acid is present at either 3, 5, or 7 amino acids N-terminal to the cleavage site, (ii) hydrophobic aliphatic amino acids (leucine, isoleucine, valine, or methionine) are never present in the position C-terminal to the monobasic amino acid at the cleavage site, (iii) a cysteine is never present in the vicinity of the cleavage site, and (iv) an aromatic amino acid is never present at the position N-terminal to the monobasic amino acid at the cleavage site.
(7) From these results it can be concluded that both the "dibasic" cleavage between vasopressin and MSEL-neurophysin and the "monobasic" cleavage between MSEL-neurophysin and copeptin occur within the granule compartment.
(8) In fact, a monobasic cleavage requires two basic residues and a domain containing nonpolar amino acids such as alanine or leucine, or both.
(9) The basic extract was neutralized and analyzed on a phenyl column eluting with acetonitrile:10 mM potassium phosphate (30:70; monobasic, pH 5.6).
(10) The method is based on derivatization with the chiral reagent 2,3,4,6-tetra-O-acetyl-beta-D-glucopyranosyl isothiocyanate (GITC), and resolution of the resulting diastereomeric thioureas by reversed-phase HPLC using methanol-aqueous monobasic ammonium phosphate mixture as the mobile phase.
(11) dibasic and monobasic specific forms, might explain the tissue-specific processing of precursors like the pro-opiomelanocortin and the CKK and somatostatin precursor.
(12) The most abundant of these were two 39 aa forms that resulted from the monobasic endoproteolytic cleavage of proHNP-1 and proHNP-3.
(13) The monobasic macrolide erythromycin on the other hand was less affected by the SC9252 mutation, less effectively antagonized by Mg2+, and was a far less effective permeabilizer than dibasic azithromycin.
(14) In the flounder the same dibasic residue processing site is utilised but cleavage at different monobasic sites takes place (corresponding to Arg50 and Arg97 in anglerfish preprosomatostatin II).
(15) Accordingly, we evaluated the buffering capacity of seven synthetic organic buffers and monobasic potassium phosphate, both singly and in pairs, over the pH range 7.4 to 6.0.
(16) It is concluded that the processing site in the intermediate form of the pancreatic eicosapeptide is an example of a proline-directed monobasic cleavage site that has been conserved during evolution.
(17) A liquid medium, designated as Kabatiella zeae medium (KZM), containing 10.0 g of carboxymethylcellulose, 5.0 g of maltose, 1.5 g of peptone, 1.0 g of monobasic potassium phosphate, 1 L of distilled water, is described.
(18) Both peptides are synthesized as larger precursors containing paired basic and monobasic amino acids at their processing sites, which, upon cleavage, generate either SRIF-14 or -28, respectively.
(19) The monobasic processing could also be distinguished from the dibasic cleavage mechanism as, in time, the cells gradually lost the ability to cleave at the monobasic site while the dibasic processing was unaffected.
(20) It was found that the sulfonamide ligands act as monobasic bidentate ON donors.
Replaceable
Definition:
(a.) Capable or admitting of being put back into a place.
(a.) Admitting of having its place supplied by a like thing or an equivalent; as, the lost book is replaceable.
(a.) Capable of being replaced (by), or of being exchanged (for); as, the hydrogen of acids is replaceable by metals or by basic radicals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thyroid replacement led to resolution of both apnea and depression.
(2) This may be due to efficient replacement of Leu by Phe at CUC (and, probably, CUU) codons throughout the genome.
(3) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(4) We recently demonstrated that functional change in SSI was possible simply by replacing the amino acid residue at the reactive P1 site (methionine 73) of SSI.
(5) Analogues of [Orn6]-SP6-11 have been synthesized in which the Met11 residue is replaced by glutamate gamma-alkylesters.
(6) In fact, the addition of conditioned medium obtained by 48 hr preincubation of isolated monocytes with 10% PF-382 supernatant (M-CM2) or the concomitant addition of supernatant from PF-382 cells (PF-382-CM) and from unstimulated monocytes (M-CM1) are capable of fully replacing the presence of monocytes in the BFU-E assay.
(7) Major plasma metabolites of quazepam were 2-oxoquazepam (OQ), obtained by replacement of S by O,N-desalkyl-2-oxoquazepam (DOQ), and 3-hydroxy-2-oxoquazepam (HOQ) glucuronide.
(8) Attachment of the graft to the wound is similar with and without the addition of human basic fibroblast growth factor, a potent angiogenic agent, to the skin replacement before graft placement on wounds.
(9) It was concluded that the detachment of the oxaloyl residue from oxaloacetate and its replacement by a proton proceed with inversion of configuration at the methylene group which becomes methyl during the hydrolysis.
(10) I f you haven’t got a family, you need that replaced in some way, that’s the most important thing you can do for someone in care,” says 24-year-old Chloe Juliette, herself a care leaver.
(11) It is an intriguing moment: the new culture secretary, Sajid Javid, who was brought in to replace Maria Miller last month, is something of an unknown quantity.
(12) Replacement of Na+ by K+ or Li+ did not alter uptake, whereas replacement of Cl- by HCO-3 or gluconate- reduced uptake by approximately 40%.
(13) He underwent a mitral and aortic valve replacement, followed by a complicated postoperative course.
(14) Substitution of NaCl in the extracellular medium by sucrose, LiCl, or Na2SO4 had no effect on glutamate stimulation of [3H]dopamine release; however, release was inhibited when NaCl was replaced by choline chloride or N-methyl-D-glucamine HCl.
(15) C. parasitica mutant strains deficient in the production of endothiapepsin (eapA-) were constructed using a gene-replacement strategy.
(16) Replacement of vinyl groups with bulkier substituents (hydroxyethyl or acetyl groups) decreases holoenzyme stability and catalytic activity.
(17) It became fully operational in 1975, replacing its predecessor the rubber bullet.
(18) The experimental results for protein preparations of calmodulin in which Ca2+ was isomorphically replaced by Tb3+ were obtained by a spectrometer working at the Institute of Nuclear Physics.
(19) The rate of indole production is increased about 4-fold when the aminoacrylate produced is converted to S-(hydroxyethyl)-L-cysteine by a coupled beta-replacement reaction with beta-mercaptoethanol.
(20) Ultrastructural study of the uterine lesion demonstrated smooth muscle cells with only a few "autophagic" facuoles to cells nearly replaced by lysosomes.