Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biochemistry A
complex ofproteins associated withtelomeres that protect the ends ofchromosomes
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word shelterin.
Examples
-
In 1995, she purified and cloned telomere repeat binding factor 1 (TRF1), the first of six telomeric proteins that bind to human telomeres. de Lange showed that the six telomeric proteins form a complex, termed shelterin, that protects chromosome ends and regulates telomerase.
-
It's sad, yet troo! that as I casts my gaze r'arward I identifies myse'f as the balmiest brand of shorthorn who ever leaves his parents 'shelterin' roof. '
Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
-
"Sai, I can't believe ye'll want to be causin trouble for three young men from the Affiliation-the Affiliation that's been like mother's milk and father's shelterin hand since aye or oh fifty generations back; ye'd not be so disrespectful as all that, would ye?"
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
-
They wer all got to land by a hawser rigged from a peak of projectin 'rock to a bit of the wreck; an' the ladies, I read, mister, an 'all o' them, lived from July to November on penguins an 'seal flesh, which they cooked in part of an iron buoy that they sawed in half fur a kittle, shelterin' themselves from the cold in tents thet they made out of the vessel's sails.
-
I guess they won't peep much about kidnapin 'with th' kid safe an 'us pickin' 'im up out o' th 'road an' shelterin '' im.
A Reversible Santa Claus Meredith Nicholson 1906
-
I met up with Mr. Clamp yesterday, Ca-iry, and I was tellin 'him about this demented creatur as you've been shelterin' at your own expense the last three years, as the hull neighborhood says it's a shame.
Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
-
Rap1 is a component of the shelterin complex at mammalian telomeres, but its in vivo role in telomere biology has remained largely unknown to date.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Paula Martinez 2010
-
Her group showed how shelterin helps to hide the telomere from the DNA damage response and represses inappropriate DNA repair reactions at chromosome ends.
-
Structure / function studies of the shelterin complex that target telomeres.
-
Article title: Developmental studies of Xenopus shelterin complexes: the message to reset telomeres is already present in the egg
innovations-report 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.