(n.) One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.
Example Sentences:
(1) NH2-terminal sequence analysis of the first 16 residues of P-450THC suggests that it is a member of the P-450IIC subfamily, because its sequence is 85 and 69% identical to published sequences of rat hepatic P-450IIC7 and P-450IIC6, respectively.
(2) The method was used for the purification of DNA from several members of the Alfaherpesvirinae subfamily.
(3) These data imply that chymase activity in the cytotoxic granules is important for cytolytic function and is likely to belong to a new subfamily of serine proteinases.
(4) As regards inhibition, on the other hand, there is now considerable information available which indicates that omeprazole has the potential to partly inhibit the metabolism of drugs metabolised to a great extent by the cytochrome P450 enzyme subfamily IIC (diazepam, phenytoin), but not of those metabolised by subfamilies IA (caffeine, theophylline), IID (metoprolol, propranolol) and IIIA (cyclosporin, lidocaine, quinidine).
(5) This implies that all of these neurotransmitter transporters may have evolved from a common ancestral gene that diverged into the GABA, glycine and catecholamine subfamilies at nearly the same time.
(6) These two human viruses coming from different retrovirus subfamilies may be pathogenic because of this lack of sensitivity to human complement components.
(7) As for the subfamilies of vertebrate integrins, the same beta-subunit is found in both Drosophila PS integrins, combined with a specific alpha-subunit to generate either a complete functional PS1 or PS2 integrin.
(8) The bovine immunodeficiency-like virus (BIV) is morphologically, serologically, and genetically related to the lentivirus subfamily of retroviruses which includes human and simian immunodeficiency viruses and other lentiviruses causally associated with debilitating diseases of domestic animals.
(9) Sequence comparison demonstrated that this gene subfamily is the human counterpart of the putative rat olfactory receptors cloned recently.
(10) Subfamilies II and III are expressed in both male and female antennae, appear to associate with general-odorant-sensitive neurons, and are highly conserved when compared among species.
(11) The ratio of the number of clones isolated over the total number screened reveals a high level of complexity for this subfamily of GTP-binding proteins.
(12) Hence, the family Eimeriidae is suggested to be divided into two subfamilies: Eimeriinae Wenyon, 1926 with Eimeria as the type genus and Isosporinae Wenyon, 1926 with Isospora, Toxoplasma, Besnoitia, Sarcocystis, Frenkelia and Hammondia.
(13) We report the isolation of a clone (pTR9) from a human chromosome 21 lambda phage library, which was found to contain two distinct components: (1) a previously unreported subfamily of human satellite III (pTR9-s3; 1,485 bp) and (2) an alpha satellite sequence (pTR9-alpha; 250 bp) containing 1.5 copies of a 171-bp alphoid unit that shows 88.4% homology to a previously reported alpha satellite consensus sequence.
(14) Further, these studies have helped to identify a new member of the PSG gene subfamily (PSG7).
(15) of the subfamily Ponerinae, which is not a harvester ant.
(16) An analogous situation has been described for a related but distinct subfamily shared by chromosomes 13 and 21.
(17) In microsomes from untreated rats with the predominant cytochrome P450IIA1 subfamily as well as in microsomes from isopropanol treated rats (induction of cytochrome P450IIE1) which catalyse only lonazolac hydroxylation to a detectable amount, the latter reaction was inhibited by pantoprazole with a somewhat lower Ki of 77 whereas the values for omeprazole and lansoprazole remained unchanged in comparison to those found in microsomes from phenobarbital pretreated rats.
(18) Clotrimazole, an imidazole antifungal drug, is known to induce cytochrome P450 isozymes of the P450IIIA and P450IIB subfamilies in rats.
(19) Of these IFNs, the trophoblast interferons, oTP-1 and bTP-1, are clearly the most well characterized and have been found to be members of an unusual 172-amino-acid-long IFN-alpha subfamily.
(20) These two subfamilies were further shown not to be present on the homologous chimpanzee chromosomes and therefore must have arisen by rearrangement of the human genome after separation of the two species.
Turkic
Definition:
(a.) Turkish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seven of the eight suspects on the list had names typical of the Turkic Muslim Uighur ethnic group native to Xinjiang, said the manager, who gave only her surname, Wu.
(2) From AP: The official newspaper Global Times reported that radicals among China's ethnic Turkic Uighur minority have been traveling to Syria since May to join the fighting.
(3) The Azerbaijani media, which often acts as a mouth piece for the government, responded to the news by accusing Clooney of harbouring a vendetta against the Turkic countries of central Asia.
(4) Xinjiang has been the scene of repeated outbreaks of violence in recent years and there are long-running tensions between the state and Uighurs, the largely Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic group that makes up almost half the population.
(5) They have their own Turkic language, music, food - even their own (strictly unofficial) time zone, two hours behind Beijing's.
(6) Turkic-speaking Uighur Muslims make up almost half of Xinjiang's 19 million inhabitants.
(7) Genetic distance comparisons with other selected populations reveal that the Turkic and Turkoman speaking peoples in the Caspian area cluster with the Kurds, Greeks and Iranis.
(8) This has fed accusations that the 37-year-old attorney is on an anti-Turkic tirade.
(9) And we have other reports concerning Chinese dissidents being brought to China from [Myanmar] after they pleaded guilty to immigration charges, and of Turkic refugees in Thailand sent to China.” Last month, Bao Zhuoxuan, the son of the imprisoned Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Yu , was detained near Myanmar’s border with China after apparently trying to flee to the US.
(10) Rights groups and the United Nations have condemned Thailand’s decision to fly nearly 100 Uighur Muslims back to China , warning that the Turkic language-speaking, largely Muslim minority would face persecution and abuse.
(11) Clooney targets Turkic states in her path to fame,” claimed AzerNews on Wednesday – an outlet known to defend the government against criticisms of human rights abuses.
(12) Separately, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan also spoke, including on issues involving the Muslim, Turkic-speaking Tatar minority, the Kremlin said, according to Reuters: In a telephone call initiated by the Turkish side, Putin and Erdogan also discussed bilateral ties between the two Black Sea nations, including in the energy sector.
(13) The restive region is home to most of China’s 10 million Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority, who rights groups say face religious and cultural discrimination.
(14) The authorities stated that the assailants were Uighurs, the Turkic-speaking Muslim minority, many of whom want independence for the northwest region of Xinjiang – or East Turkestan, as Uighurs call it.
(15) Anti-Turkic activities indeed helped Amal, a Lebanese by origin with close roots to large Armenian community in her motherland, to get distinguished in her lawyer career,” wrote AzerNews.
(16) Ilham Tohti has long been a critic of what he calls the systematic exclusion of Uighurs from the economic benefits brought to Xinjiang by migrants from China’s Han majority, and has sought to prevent the Turkic Uighur language and culture from being marginalised.
(17) The official Anatolia news agency later explained that the 16 warriors each represented one of the empires of Turkish history, dating back to well before the Turkic conquest of Anatolia.
(18) The Turkic-speaking Muslims say they have long been repressed by the Chinese government and fear they would be arrested, tortured or executed if sent back to China .
(19) It pointed to a new level of violence and lethal intent in the long-simmering insurgency against Chinese rule in the far northwestern region of Xinjiang waged by radicals among the native Turkic Uighur Muslim population.
(20) Men carrying knives attacked police stations, a local government building and a construction site on Wednesday morning in a remote town in the Turkic-speaking region, according to Xinhua news agency.