Example sentences for: hammerhead

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  • In the deep Atlantic, just beyond Madeira’s shallow waters, you can catch  — according to the season — giant blue marlin, bonito, tuna (big-eye, blue-fin, and yellow-fin), barracuda, swordfish, wahoo, and shark (hammerhead, maco, and blue).

  • In vivo studies have supported the conclusion that CBP/p300 are components of the hormonal-regulation of transcription in fibroblasts isolated from a p300-/- mouse; and loss of the p300 gene severely affects retinoic acid (RA)-dependent transcription [ 91 ] . In a separate study using hammerhead ribozymes that specifically cleave CBP or p300 mRNA, Kawasaki et al [ 92 ] reported that reduced cellular CBP or p300 levels resulted in compromised expression of endogenous RA-inducible genes such as p21/Waf1 and p27 cdk inhibitors.

  • For example, Herschlag and co-workers have previously shown that a nucleobase could complement an abasic site within the hammerhead ribozyme, restoring cleavage activity [ 1 ] . Similarly, Porta and Lizardi engineered a hammerhead ribozyme that assumed an inactive secondary structure; upon the addition of an oligonucleotide that disrupted the engineered secondary structure, the ribozyme was activated [ 2 ] . More recently, it has previously been shown that many selected nucleic acid binding species (aptamers) undergo conformational changes upon ligand binding [ 3 4 5 6 ] In addition, when aptamers are conjoined to ribozymes, the ligand-induced conformational changes in the aptamers frequently modulate the structures and hence the activities of the ribozymes [ 7 8 9 ] For example, binding of theophylline to the anti-theophylline aptamer [ 10 ] modulates the conformation of residue [ 11 12 ] and the overall stability of the aptamer [ 10 13 ] . Appending the anti-theophylline aptamer to the hammerhead ribozyme allowed cleavage activity to be modulated by 110-fold by theophylline [ 13 ] . Similarly, appending the anti-theophylline aptamer to a small ribozyme ligase (L1) generated an aptazyme that was activated 1,600-fold by saturating theophylline concentrations [ 14 ] .

  • It’s said to be a great place to see groups of hammerhead sharks as well as turtles and huge rays.

  • However, the Group I self-splicing intron is a much more complicated ribozyme than either the hammerhead or the L1 ligase; for example, the tertiary structure of the Group I intron is established by a complicated folding pathway.


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