What's the difference between orc and orf?

Orc


Definition:

  • (n.) The grampus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Genes play an important etiological role in ORC-related psychiatric side effects.
  • (2) Electron-microscopic studies of 2 of the Mabs in this class showed that they recognize antigens associated with the cell membrane and that the immunoreactive ORC axons are bundled together in fascicles in the antennal nerve.
  • (3) To investigate the etiological role of genetic factors in ORC-related symptoms, we studied questionnaire responses in 715 monozygotic and 416 dizygotic volunteer twin pairs concordant for ORC usage.
  • (4) A poll late last week, by CNN and ORC International , revealed that only 34% of Americans now support the war, one percentage point down on the previous all-time low.
  • (5) CNN, together with the market research company ORC, conducted a poll with a more robust methodology, although they only managed to speak to 537 registered voters in total (only 27% of whom identified as Republican).
  • (6) Stableflex (ORC) is a PMMA anterior chamber intraocular lens with closed and flexible loops permitting the philosophy of "one size fits all" in 90% of the eyes.
  • (7) Pyloric and cardiac glands were stained faintly with ox-orc but not with ox-HID or ox-AB.
  • (8) Multivariate genetic analysis indicated that both the genetic and the individual-specific environmental factors that influenced the liability to ORC-related depression and irritability were largely distinct from those that influence baseline levels of psychiatric symptoms.
  • (9) The protection in situ is similar to that generated by the origin recognition complex (ORC) protein.
  • (10) The authors report on their experience with UV-absorbent posterior chamber IOLs (ORC) implanted between April 1, 1984 and April 1, 1985 (n = 125).
  • (11) One group had the area of the aorta with the patch wrapped with oxidized regenerated cellulose (ORC); the other group served as a control.
  • (12) P. putida ORC, on the other hand, possesses individual hydroxylases for orcinol and resorcinol, which are specifically induced by growth on their respective substrates.
  • (13) In the control group, rabbits were fed commercial chow (ORC 4).
  • (14) Results demonstrate that ORC produced graded reduction in adhesion formation and significantly prevented adhesion reformation.
  • (15) In the investigation reported here, we examined the expression of the antigens during postembryonic development in order to correlate the presence of particular antigens with the status of differentiation of the ORCs or with their acquisition of particular functions.
  • (16) Immediately after this period of mitoses, the OSA immunoreactivity reappears exclusively in the ORCs, which begin to elaborate axons as an early event in their differentiation.
  • (17) In films featuring Dracula, Tony Montana, Orcs or even Achilles, the parameters are more clearly drawn.
  • (18) He’s been shot, stabbed, pulled apart by horses, chased off a cliff by cows, thrown off a giant satellite dish, blown up, beheaded and turned into a human pin-cushion by Orc arrows.
  • (19) Then everyone files out and goes into the next demo room – and you do this for the three days that the event runs, like being strapped to a conveyor belt of hype, until you don’t know where you are any more and all the games have merged into one narrative about a spec-ops warrior slaughtering orcs on Saturn.
  • (20) This antibody demonstrates that male-specific ORCs are molecularly distinct from other types of ORCs.

Orf


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Orfe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Translation of the tnsC ORF reveals strong homology to a consensus sequence for nucleotide binding sites as well as a region of similarity to a transcriptional activator (MalT).
  • (2) The 912 nucleotide ORF has been identified as the cell-to-cell transport protein gene.
  • (3) The RNA sequence was 6791 nucleotides in length and contained four open reading frames (ORFs).
  • (4) DNA sequence analysis of a 3.8-kb genomic piece allowed identification of (i) an open reading frame (ORF) with striking homology to the previously identified D. melanogaster ORF and (ii) conserved sequence elements of possible regulatory relevance within and flanking the second intron.
  • (5) A consensus promoter sequence was found immediately 5' to the first ORF.
  • (6) The tat open reading frame (ORF) has a strong signal for translation initiation, while rev and vpu ORFs have weaker signals.
  • (7) No homology to any published protein sequence was found for the smaller ORFs.
  • (8) The positive-strand RNA genome of pestiviruses contains a single large open reading frame (ORF) extending its entire length and is capable of encoding 450 kDa of protein.
  • (9) The ten classes of mutants included (i) mutants showing abortive intracellular and extracellular growth; (ii) mutants showing abortive intracellular growth; (iii) rough mutants; (iv) mutants showing greatly reduced hemolysin and phospholipase secretion but showing normal growth in cells and little or no association with F-actin; (v) mutants with mutations mapping to an open reading frame (ORF) adjacent to hlyA and referred to as ORF U, lacking phospholipase activity, and with 50% normal hemolysin activity; (vi) mutants with reduced secretion of both hemolysin and phospholipase; (vii) nonhemolytic mutants with mutations mapping to the structural gene, hlyA; (viii) mutants with 25% normal hemolysin secretion and absolutely no association with F-actin; (ix) mutants with mutations mapping to ORF U, lacking phospholipase activity, and with normal hemolysin activity; and (x) mutants showing a mixed-plaque morphology but normal for all other parameters.
  • (10) The region of the AcMNPV genome encompassing EcoRI-H and -S (map positions 82.6-85.8) contains five open reading frames (ORFs) forming one transcriptional unit.
  • (11) We have used immunoblotting analysis to identify four protein products of orf-1.
  • (12) The nucleotide sequences, comprising a total of 8.6 kb, and the amino acid translations for nine predicted open reading frames (ORFs) (designated SalF4L, SalF 19R, SalF21R, B4R, B8R, B9R, B10R, and B14R) are presented.
  • (13) The Cs cob.1 ORF was cloned into the vector pMALcr1 and over-expressed as a hybrid protein fused to maltose-binding protein (MBP).
  • (14) Starting from two in-frame AUG codons (seven amino acid residues apart) an open reading frame (ORF) was identified that extended in frame into the ORF coding for the downstream E2 membrane protein gene.
  • (15) Oral antisecretory potency of ORF 17583 in gastric fistula dogs was 31 times greater than cimetidine, 3.7 times greater than ranitidine and equal to that of omeprazole and famotidine.
  • (16) sigB lay in an operon with four open reading frames (orfs) in the order orfV-orfW-sigB-orfX, and lacZ gene fusions showed that all four frames were translated in vivo.
  • (17) An upstream sequence surrounding the first AUG of the smaller ORF corresponds to a potentially functional initiation codon.
  • (18) An open reading frame (ORF) coding for a 57.3 kDa polypeptide was identified.
  • (19) A 591-nt ORF is located near the 5' end of MStV RNA3, while a second ORF of 948 nt is located near the 3' end in the viral complementary RNA (vcRNA).
  • (20) The nucleotide sequence showed two overlapping open reading frames (ORFs) within the kikA region.

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