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The first strategy exploited a vector with a counter-selectable marker placed at the end of one of the targeting hooks.
In Figure 2A, the TAR vector recombines with a genomic DNA fragment via the targeting hooks, which results in separation of the TATA box from the transcription initiation site in the URA3 gene by the DNA insert.
The IFAW has videotaped atrocities, and while we are not made to witness a skinning or an impaling, we hear the pup crying and see hooks waving.
Pistone, who dislikes the officious superiors in his FBI "family," boasts of having his hooks in Lefty, but comes to dread (and delay) the moment when he'll be pulled out of Operation Donnie Brasco and called upon to bring about his mentor's demise.
Martinis, barbecues, cigarettes, adultery--all are now vestigial, but where are the new suburban symbolic hooks?