Example sentences for: distinct

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  • Indeed, the city’s distinct geography allowed most of its older neighborhoods to survive the terrible destruction wrought by the second atomic bomb to be dropped on Japan, on 9 August 1945 — despite the fact that the Nagasaki bomb was more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima three days earlier.

  • Each is a distinct phylum; although there may be word-borrowing among them, lexicon is considered less important in the classification of languages than structure and grammar.

  • While our study suggests that SKP2 is an important player in p27 regulation in prostate cancer cells, recent studies have also implicated another protein, CSN5/JAB1, in p27 regulation [ 54 55 ] . CSN5 is a subunit of the COP9/signalosome (CSN) complex [ 56 57 58 59 ] , but also forms distinct complexes apparently lacking CSN subunits [ 55 60 61 62 ] . Overexpression of CSN5 in NIH3T3 cells causes p27 export from the nucleus and ectopic degradation [ 54 ] . Notably, like SKP2 [ 33 36 37 38 ] , CSN5 was found to be overexpressed in cancers devoid of p27 [ 63 ] . However, our studies did not reveal any effect of MIB on CSN5 expression.

  • 1A, the tree constructed using the neighbor-joining method (similar results were obtained using the parsimony method, not shown), indeed shows that the proteins can be classified into four major groups, with significant bootstrap values, which can therefore be considered as distinct protein families.

  • First and foremost, the method can present overlapping clusters, revealing distinct features of each gene's function and regulation.


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