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All of the antisense clones were able to form colonies in soft agar (2-23 colonies per 10 4cells plated; data not shown), whereas control clones were deficient in their ability to form colonies (0-0.
The survival after the American Revolution of such names in the former British colonies in North America as Georgetown, Georgia, and New England evidence that the revolutionary spirit in the future USA had little effect on nomenclature.
The “liberation” of these old European colonies created the basis for postwar independence movements proclaiming the Japanese slogan “Asia for the Asians. ”
We found that BRCA1 antisense cells, both as pooled populations and individual subclones, also exhibited enhanced growth in monolayer culture on plastic in the presence of estrogen compared with control vector-infected colonies.
Pale yellow colonies may represent weak σ E-independent promoters or promoters that are recognized by another sigma factor in addition to σ E, providing a low level of constitutive expression.