Example sentences for: distinct

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  • Everybody notes that the settlement, in its low-key, no-name-calling style, stands in distinct contrast to Microsoft's approach to its legal tussle with the government, and everybody says that Intel went this way precisely to avoid the PR beating it thinks Microsoft has been suffering.

  • However, this set of genes was not coordinately expressed during cell-cycle progression [ 54, 55], suggesting that these cell-wall genes may be regulated by a distinct mechanism in response to environmental conditions.

  • This suggests that evolution of gene fusions often, if not always, passes through an intermediate stage of juxtaposed and co-regulated, but still distinct, genes within known or predicted operons.

  • Nonetheless, bacterial resistance to these antibiotics is extensive, most commonly due to the bacterial production of β-lactamases [ 10 51 ] . In fact, there have been over 300 distinct β-lactamases reported, and most of these enzymes utilize an active site serine group to nucleophilically attack the β-lactam carbonyl, resulting in a hydrolyzed product that is covalently attached to the active site.

  • In hydroxyl radical footprinting, the small, highly reactive hydroxyl radical (•OH) attacks the deoxyribose sugars along the DNA backbone with no sequence or base specificity, thereby providing a high resolution of structural information [ 27 28 ] . A total of eight to nine distinct hydroxyl radical protected regions were observed of three to five basepairs in size for each DNA strand that extended over a 97 bp region (Figure 4).


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