Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a micrococcus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to micrococci; caused by micrococci.

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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or caused by a micrococcus

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Examples

  • The micrococcal nuclease calcium dependence was put to good use by Hugh Pelham, a graduate student in the lab, who developed the use of nuclease treatment of the lysate to assay heterologous mRNAs.

    Tim Hunt - Autobiography 2002

  • One other thing I learned about during the studies on the inhibition of protein synthesis by dsRNA was that micrococcal nuclease, which requires Ca2+ for activity, did not inhibit protein synthesis in the reticulocyte lysate provided no Ca2+ was present.

    Tim Hunt - Autobiography 2002

  • Moreover, HCV strands were shown to be resistant to micrococcal nuclease treatment, a treatment that completely hydrolyzed ribosomal RNA

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michel V. L�vesque et al. 2010

  • Cockroaches cannot resist against strong D. radiodurans photomicrograph showing the tetrad growth unit of this micrococcal eubacteria.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • D. radiodurans photomicrograph showing the tetrad growth unit of this micrococcal eubacteria.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Even cockroaches cannot resist against the strong D. radiodurans photomicrograph showing the tetrad growth unit of this micrococcal eubacteria.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • [[Image: Tetrads. jpg | thumb | 250px | left | D. radiodurans photomicrograph showing the tetrad growth unit of this micrococcal eubacteria.]] [[Image: Tetrads. jpg | thumb | 250px | left | D. radiodurans photomicrograph showing the tetrad growth unit of this micrococcal eubacteria.]] is classified as Gram positive bacillus.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

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