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As a result, many condoms dispensed by well-meaning governments and health care organizations are leaky, corroded, or ill-fitting.
At the same time, it is important to point out that in the present studies, fs-α 1S expression is under the control of a viral promoter and that in this hybrid viral-mammalian expression system, the rules pertaining to leaky ribosomal scanning may be different.
After waiting a considerable period of time, a U-Haul mechanic showed up, taped up a leaky hose, and left.
From a methodological perspective, leaky scanning could be further used as a means to control protein expression to desired levels, since restart of translation after a premature stop codon is sensitive to the number of nucleotides separating the stop and restart codons [ 39 ] . By changing the position of the restart methionine relative to the premature stop codon, it might be possible to significantly change the level of expression of the distal protein fragment and hence functional protein as a whole.
The lower levels of Smad1, Smad4, Az and SNIP1 in lane 1 compared with those in lane 10 suggest that the leaky signaling by the overexpressed ALK3, which we have demonstrated recently [ 39 ] , caused a constitutive reduction of Smad4, Az and SNIP1 level that is dependent upon the activation of Smad1.