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The etymology of all these names remains as elusive as that of Rome itself.
Findings from the accumulated literature appear to be more than chance yet sufficiently variable as to render “hard” replication elusive.
Although many proteins are known to be essential for exit from mitosis, the factor that sets Cdc14 free from the nucleolus still remains elusive.
Chance for the gold elusive as the cure for trials of heart.
Phosphorylation of Ser 505has been extensively studied because it is readily detected due to a characteristic electrophoretic mobility shift when analyzed by SDS-PAGE [ 13 16 ] . The importance of Ser 505phosphorylation in regulating cPLA 2 has been demonstrated in different cells and in vitro models by using cPLA 2 containing a S505A mutation [ 16 22 ] . However, the mechanism whereby Ser 505phosphorylation regulates cPLA 2 function has been elusive.