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- noun Plural form of
glutamine .
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Growth hormones such as glycine, glutamines and amino acids can help you grow taller.
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In this strain, a truncated form of the human MJD/SCA3 protein, containing 78 glutamines (MJDtrQ78), is expressed under the control of the UAS promoter
PLoS Biology: New Articles Daniel W. Neef et al. 2010
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Proteins with these abnormally long tracts of glutamines are highly susceptible to misfolding and aggregation.
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To find out if HSF1A could initiate an HSF1 response in mammalian neurons, the researchers added it to an in vitro culture of rat neuronal precursor cells that expressed a mutant human huntingtin gene containing an expanded tract of glutamines.
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Most people have a huntingtin protein whose polyglutamine segment contains 20 or so glutamines, and even a polyglutamine with as many as 35 repeats may not cause Huntington's symptoms.
innovations-report 2009
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Most people have a huntingtin protein whose polyglutamine segment contains 20 or so glutamines, and even a polyglutamine with as many as 35 repeats may not cause Huntington's symptoms.
innovations-report 2009
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Most people have a huntingtin protein whose polyglutamine segment contains 20 or so glutamines, and even a polyglutamine with as many as 35 repeats may not cause Huntington's symptoms.
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It is known that while most people have a huntingtin protein whose polyglutamine segment contains 20 to 35 glutamines, patients with Huntington's have a block of 40 repeats or more.
GEN News Highlights 2009
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Normal individuals have fewer than 27 repeats, hence fewer than 27 glutamines in the relevant peptide.
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(htt) containing 74 glutamines fused to green fluorescent protein (GFP) (httQ74-GFP) is expressed in rat phaeochromocytoma (PC12) cells, a rat neuronal precursor cell line, via a doxycycline-inducible promoter.
PLoS Biology: New Articles Daniel W. Neef et al. 2010
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