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The last two cohorts of males contained an rtTA insertion called rtTA(3)M1 which is associated with a high level of target-gene expression and greater leaky expression.
This phenomenon has been described in eukaryotic cells and in viral-infected mammalian cells and is known as translation by leaky ribosomal scanning [ 32 33 ] . To test this explanation, the presumptive restart condon, Met701, was mutated to Ile701 in the fs-α 1S template.
After waiting a considerable period of time, a U-Haul mechanic showed up, taped up a leaky hose, and left.
Somebody's Not Telling the Truth: On This Week , Watergate prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste rips Starr's leaky office, noting that Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski, the two chief Watergate special prosecutors that Ben-Veniste worked with, never leaked a thing.
6C) favor the explanation that 1) fs-α 1S recovers DHPR function by virtue of expressing two complementary fragments of α 1S and 2) the expression of the C-terminal half of α 1S by fs-α 1S is likely to occur by leaky ribosomal scanning.