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In Modern English (1873), he harassed other self-proclaimed authorities, and, in both books, three or four lines of text float above a dense mass of footnotes in tightly set six-point type.
Consistent with this observation, studies of detergent-induced dissociation of LHCs suggested that Chl b is held by the proteins approximately two-times more tightly than Chl a [ 24 ] . Tighter binding of Chl b is apparently responsible for the well-known stability of light-harvesting complexes during mildly denaturing gel electrophoresis.
Depending on the source and nature of the reporting, these reports may be highly classified-and therefore tightly held-or less sensitive and widely disseminated to state and local law enforcement agencies.
When I bend to hear my parents' hearts or lean against a wall to hear my friend's, it's like water in a shell held tightly to the ear: salt blood and ocean emptiness and wind, vena cavae, almost still.
These results suggest that a tightly membrane-associated regulatory subunit of the α-secretase complex is likely to be the key phosphoprotein that mediates α-secretase activity as a function of its state of phosphorylation by PKC and perhaps also ERK and ROCK1.