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  • abbreviation biochemistry IUPAC 3-letter abbreviation of aspargine

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Examples

  • "'Asn't she got up a single rag to show us she sees us?" puffed Galton, swiping his hand across his forehead and flinging drops on the iron deck, where they evaporated the moment they hit.

    The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling 1923

  • "'Asn't' e got no civvies at all?" said the small man, beginning to look sceptical.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916 Various 1898

  • Asn aging Titan 1 ICBM was moved from its current location at NASA ARC to its new home next to Building 596 on 18 March 2010.

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: March 2010 Archives 2010

  • Just look at Asn-Asp and Gln-Glu tRNAs and their codon sequence with an understanding of charging proteins and the likely-hood of evolving similar shaped active sites and similar anti-codons.

    The standard genetic code enhances adaptive evolution of proteins - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • The History of Zayn al-Asnám and the King of the Jánn

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • I hold the name to be elliptical, Zayn (al-Din = Adornment of The Faith and owner of) al-Asnßm = the Images.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Asn amino acid substitutions in the HA sequence could be associated with antigenic drift, they were compared to known potential epitopes

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Makoto Kuroda et al. 2010

  • The mutation was heterozygous and replacing a highly conserved Asn residue with a Ser.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs XiuYu Shi 2010

  • While, KIR2DL1 exhibits C2 specificity and recognizes HLA-C alleles with Lys 80 (e.g. HLA-Cw4 and HLA-Cw6), KIR2DL2 has C1 specificity and recognizes alleles with Asn 80 (e.g. Cw3).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Tsufit Gonen-Gross et al. 2010

  • However, for L-amino acids such as Asp or Asn, interactions between the side-chain carbonyl group with the carbonyl of the main-chain peptide bond can give rise to relative stabilisation of a conformation with a positive φ angle Box plots for the substitution scores by the class of secondary structure.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sungsam Gong et al. 2010

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