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Scherer 1999 Evidence for a holin-like protein gene fully embedded out of frame in the endolysin gene of Staphylococcus aureus bacteriophage 187.
Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Still haz all the duck tape and the 50′s shower cap holin me brainz in.
This Valentine’s Day… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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"Tacklin 'a crazy wild beast whilst you an' me were holin 'up," Blister interjected.
The Fighting Edge William MacLeod Raine 1912
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Der was no use er talkin '; I had to tell her, an' so I skip along up quiet as a breeze, an 'start'd to whisper in her ear, but just den de holin-back straps of Jasper's breachin' broke, an '
John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher William Eldridge 1908
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Now if you could run a button-holin 'machine, or was a paper hanger, or could handle a delivery truck, or could make good as a floor walker in the men's furnishin' department, or had ever done any barberin '-- Say!
Torchy As A Pa Sewell Ford 1907
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She constructed a library of single-Cys mutants and performed chemical modifications on membrane preparations containing the variant S proteins while looking for protected domains to define the transmembrane domains of the holin.
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Dr. Gründling's initial work focused on how the lambda holin, protein S, sits in the membrane and how S monomers interact.
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You mean straight people haven't heard of ear-holin 'and nose-bangin' and socket-fuckin 'and piss-slittin' and ann-coulterin '?
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I woulda luv fa ROK ta be holin my hands an reciting dah poem ta me girl.
Barbados Underground 2009
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*snert* Yz Aye finkin U cuud taek teh slyied whale holin on2 teh drinkz?
Dat wuz… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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