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- noun biology A
cell that has incorporatednucleic acid of another species throughtransfection
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In chemotaxis assays, the 926G transfectant showed greater response to CCL25 than the 926A transfectant.
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EphA4-HA was expressed together with wild-type Meltrin β (Meltrin β WT); Meltrin β EQ, which contains a point mutation in the active site of its metalloprotease domain; or the empty plasmid as a control, and total cell lysates were prepared from each transfectant with Triton-X100 lysis buffer.
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