(v. t.) To change the place or order of; to substitute one for the other of; to exchange, in respect of position; as, to transpose letters, words, or propositions.
(v. t.) To change; to transform; to invert.
(v. t.) To bring, as any term of an equation, from one side over to the other, without destroying the equation; thus, if a + b = c, and we make a = c - b, then b is said to be transposed.
(v. t.) To change the natural order of, as words.
(v. t.) To change the key of.
Example Sentences:
(1) The initial observation of Tn551 transition involved UV inactivation of the carrier plasmid; this would appear to be a general means of detecting transposable elements.
(2) The spontaneous v alleles that are suppressed by the suppressor of sable [su(s)] are apparently identical insertions of 412, a copia-like transposable element.
(3) Analysis of a transposable, element-induced o2 allele, o2-m20, revealed that sectors of endosperm cells contained the nuclear-localized O2 protein, indicating excision of the transposable element.
(4) Restriction mapping and Southern hybridization analyses of these cloned DNA fragments suggested that these s-triazine catabolic genes may be located on a transposable element, the ends of which are identical 2.2-kb insertion sequences.
(5) The availability of a transposon-based mutator system should aid in the cloning of additional genes in C. elegans, and the particular properties of this Tc1 system may provide information about the control of transposable element activity more generally.
(6) Up to now, one surgical repair in an adolescent with transposed great arteries and total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage of the supracardiac type has been reported.
(7) After shunting these arteries were transposed to the surface of the left ventricle which allowed the ventriculotomy incision under them to be sutured.
(8) The distribution of the number of copies of P and I transposable elements per genome was investigated by in situ hybridization for a large set of Drosophila melanogaster strains.
(9) Here, we examine a group of six recessive mutations, the facets (fa, fa3, fag, fag-2, fafx and fasw), which affect eye and optic lobe morphology and have been previously shown to be associated with the insertion of transposable elements into an intronic region of Notch.
(10) Fetal abuse may be one antecedent of child abuse, and this paper attempts to transpose the known correlates of child abuse into an antenatal time framework.
(11) Our results indicate that, if the mutant can be transposed equally well in the presence of the wild type, then it can be expected to be found in preponderance, whereas elements, such as retroviruses, where the transposing genome and its phenotypic expression are coupled, may be characterized by a low mutant frequency.
(12) The insertion element is shown to transpose to different sites in the chromosome of a related fast-growing species, M. smegmatis.
(13) We suggest that oriC and mioC might have been transposed during evolution into an asnC regulation.
(14) The insertion sequence IS1 belongs to a class of bacterial transposable genetic elements that can form compound transposons in which two copies of IS1 flank an otherwise non-transposable segment of DNA.
(15) This shows that the element was transposed to this location before speciation of the subgenus.
(16) The transposable genetic element Tn3, which carries an ampicillin (Ap) resistance determinant, has been translocated from a ColE1-Apr plasmid, RSF2124, to the genome of the filamentous single-stranded DNA phage M13.
(17) "At first I thought we could take the six characters and transpose them to a time in the future after an imaginary climate apocalypse.
(18) To determine whether exposure to proximal intestinal contents per se is an adequate stimulus for ileal adaptation of the magnitude seen after jejunectomy, rats were prepared by transposing 30 cm of distal ileum to the duodenojejunal junction or by sham operation.
(19) P transposable elements in Drosophila melanogaster can undergo precise loss at a rate exceeding 13% per generation.
(20) Two alleles were identified as mutations in the accC gene, the third allele was identified as a mutation in the accB gene, and the fourth allele was shown to be an insertion of an IS1 transposable element in the promoter region of the operon, resulting in reduced transcription.
Transposition
Definition:
(n.) The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed.
(n.) The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other without destroying the equation.
(n.) A change of the natural order of words in a sentence; as, the Latin and Greek languages admit transposition, without inconvenience, to a much greater extent than the English.
(n.) A change of a composition into another key.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case of incomplete peno-scrotal transposition, with a perineal anorectal duplication, vesico-ureteric reflux and thoracic hemivertebrae is presented.
(2) This modified transposon may be useful for studies of other bacteria that support transposition of Mu, but not Tn5, derivatives.
(3) This report adds another modification of the standard gastrocnemius muscle flap: transtibial transposition of the muscle through the posterior cortex.
(4) Together these rearrangements occur at about 10% the rate of IS10 transposition.
(5) A final experiment confirmed a prediction from the above theory that when recalling the original sequence, omissions (recalling no word) will decrease and transpositions (giving the wrong word) will increase as noise level increases.
(6) An accurate description of the coronary anatomy is desired before anatomic correction of d-transposition of the great arteries.
(7) Restriction endonuclease analysis of the resulting plasmids have shown, that among them were the end products of the Tn2555 transposition from RP4 to pBR325.
(8) Transposition of En-1 in the potato clone was analysed by Southern blot hybridization and confirmed by molecular isolation of En-1 excision and integration events.
(9) Transposition of prolabium not required in the definitive lip repair into the floor of the nose permits subsequent columellar construction.
(10) Six had a univentricular heart of left ventricular morphology, three had a single ventricle of right ventricular morphology, one had tricuspid atresia with transposition of the great arteries, one had pulmonary atresia, intact ventricular septum, and hypoplastic right ventricle, and one had corrected transposition with hypoplastic systemic ventricle.
(11) Twenty-four patients had uncomplicated ventricular septal defect, 2 had single ventricle, 5 had transposition of the great arteries, 5 had atrioventricular canal defects, and 2 had coarctation of the aorta and ventricular septal defect.
(12) However, the very low frequency (5 X 10(-8)) at which intramolecular transpositions in the bireplicons occurs, as compared to the single replicon (10(-4)), suggests that a complete transposition reaction may not be necessary to generate deletions.
(13) The most commonly associated lesions were ventricular septal defect (50%), hypoplastic aortic arch (45%), patent ductus arteriosus (41%), transposition of great arteries (22.7%) and other intracardiac lesions comprised 30%.
(14) Anterior transposition of the cervical pedicles and fixation of the myometrium to the anterior vagina ensure that the fitting is solid and in the correct direction.
(15) Self-integration and methylation of Tp1 elements may function to limit transposition frequency.
(16) The associated of hemophilia and transposition, observed also by others, is extremely unlikely by chance and suggests genetic errors of endothelial cell function.
(17) The process of diagnosis by echocardiography of transposition of the great vessels is based fundamentally on the recognition of the position and relative orientation of the two ventricles and of the two vessels of the base of the heart.
(18) The diagnosis based on physical ECG and X-rays was correct in only 42% of cases, and was most accurate in children with transposition of the great arteries, syndrome of Fallot, coarctation of the aorta and ventricular septal defects.
(19) This radionuclide study suggests that following surgery for transposition of the great arteries: mean right ventricular systolic ejection fraction remains at levels consistent with values usually found for the "normal" right ventricle; group right ventricular function does not deteriorate in the years following surgery; and tricuspid regurgitation may be detected in the early postoperative years.
(20) Like all other elements studied to date, the integrity of the extremities of IS1 are essential for efficient transposition.