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- noun Plural form of
subunit .
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Examples
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The authors of the experiment interpret this situation by making the hypothesis that there could be “conserved features” of bacterial RNase P RNA and protein subunits essential for their primary functional activity in vivo.
A Top-down Approach 2008
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Our results agree with the latter study, and in keeping with the established nomenclature we term the subunits 51a
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Richard P. Berry et al. 2010
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The reaction center is composed of four protein subunits.
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Researchers at two biotechnology companies -- Pasteur-Vaccines in Paris and Genentech in South San Francisco -- inoculated their animals with "subunits" of the human AIDS virus before injecting them with the whole agent.
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Assistant Professor Hiro Furukawa, Ph. D., and colleagues at CSHL, in cooperation with the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory, obtained crystal structures for one of several "subunits" of the NMDA receptor.
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Assistant Professor Hiro Furukawa, Ph. D., and colleagues at CSHL, in cooperation with the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory, obtained crystal structures for one of several "subunits" of the NMDA receptor.
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One could think of the two subunits as the 0 and 1 of a binary code.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Oftentimes intense factionalism sundered these nearly autonomous subunits, paralyzing decision making and united action and sometimes becoming deadly.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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The 20s proteasome is a heteromer composed of 28 non-identical subunits.
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Oftentimes intense factionalism sundered these nearly autonomous subunits, paralyzing decision making and united action and sometimes becoming deadly.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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