Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A protein of high molecular weight that is a major component of the membrane of red blood cells.
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- noun biochemistry A
contractile protein found on the surface of themembranes ofblood cells .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Together with Vann, I evaluated the membranes and found them to be grossly deficient in spectrin, and we reported the study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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They discovered that ATP controls binding between the fatty cell membrane and the interior cellular structure, known as the spectrin network, which is necessary for the membrane vibrations to occur.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Vann had also joined the Wellcome Laboratories, and he developed techniques to study the principal structural proteins from red blood cell membranes - spectrin, which formed the girders of the membrane skeleton, and ankyrin, the attachment protein that he discovered.
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Andy and I continued the spherocytosis studies, establishing that the level of spectrin deficiency correlated with the clinical severity of the disease in new reports published in Nature and the New England Journal of Medicine.
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A fly larva carrying a faulty human {beta} - III-spectrin gene hoists its paralyzed hindquarters, a maneuver called a tail flip.
WN.com - Articles related to Team Finds Promising New Drug Target For Alzheimer's 2010
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Williams J, Klipfell E, Zarnescu D, Thomas G, et al. (2002) Crumbs interacts with moesin and beta (Heavy) - spectrin in the apical membrane skeleton of Drosophila.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michaela Norum et al. 2010
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A fly larva carrying a faulty human {beta} - III-spectrin gene hoists its paralyzed hindquarters, a maneuver called a tail flip.
WN.com - Articles related to Team Finds Promising New Drug Target For Alzheimer's 2010
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The evolutionary conserved transmembrane protein Crumbs (Crb) has an influence on the organisation of the actin cytoskeleton at the apical portion of the cell through the interaction with the actin-binding factor β-heavy spectrin
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michaela Norum et al. 2010
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A fly larva carrying a faulty human {beta} - III-spectrin gene hoists its paralyzed hindquarters, a maneuver called a tail flip.
WN.com - Articles related to Team Finds Promising New Drug Target For Alzheimer's 2010
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A fly larva carrying a faulty human {beta} - III-spectrin gene hoists its paralyzed hindquarters, a maneuver called a tail flip.
WN.com - Articles related to Team Finds Promising New Drug Target For Alzheimer's 2010
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