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- noun biochemistry Any of a family of
plasma glycoproteins , secreted from theliver into thebloodstream
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Examples
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M. mobile cells require sialic proteins (in this case, fetuin was used) to glide over solid surfaces.
Incredible Motor Powered By Living Bacteria | Impact Lab 2006
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To prepare the bacterial-propulsion units, the team used a strain of the fast-crawling bacterium Mycoplasma mobile that was genetically engineered to crawl only on a carpet of certain proteins, including one called fetuin.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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To prepare the bacterial-propulsion units, the team used a strain of the fast-crawling bacterium Mycoplasma mobile that was genetically engineered to crawl only on a carpet of certain proteins, including one called fetuin.
Gut Flora 2006
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The scientists created a top layer of gold on the silicon track, and then deposited the sialic-acid-containing fetuin on selected lithographic micropatterns to compel the desired movement of the bacteria.
Incredible Motor Powered By Living Bacteria | Impact Lab 2006
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The researchers laid down fetuin within the circular groove and coated the rotor with a protein called streptavidin.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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The researchers laid down fetuin within the circular groove and coated the rotor with a protein called streptavidin.
Gut Flora 2006
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One of them is fetuin-A, a 60-kDa glycoprotein synthesized in the liver and secreted into blood.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Qiujie Jiang 2010
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Delivery of an expression construct containing full-length mouse fetuin-A complementary DNA (cDNA), linked to a His-tag, to the liver of these mice resulted in elevated serum levels of this protein.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Qiujie Jiang 2010
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The purified RNase B (Sigma) was used as a positive control in parallel in the N-deglycosylation experiment and the purified bovine fetuin (Sigma) as a positive control in the O-deglycosylation experiment.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hongyu Ying et al. 2010
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In this study, we tested the hypothesis that overexpression of fetuin-A in
Naturejobs - All Jobs Qiujie Jiang 2010
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