Spectrin

Word SPECTRIN
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What do we mean by spectrin?

A protein of high molecular weight that is a major component of the membrane of red blood cells. noun

A contractile protein found on the surface of the membranes of blood cells. noun

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The word "spectrin" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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. ❋ Michaela Norum Et Al. (2010)

Vesicles from flies that made the faulty {beta} - III-spectrin were slower and more likely to change direction, and thus traveled shorter distances. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How the mutant protein damages Purkinje cells remains uncertain. {beta} - III-spectrin stabilizes synapses, suggesting that synapse deterioration might doom the cells. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They engineered fruit flies to carry a mutated {beta} - III spectrin gene from either of two human families affected with SCA5, including one descended from Abraham Lincoln's paternal grandparents (whether Lincoln himself had the disease isn't clear). ❋ Unknown (2010)

A fly larva carrying a faulty human {beta} - III-spectrin gene hoists its paralyzed hindquarters, a maneuver called a tail flip. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Vesicles from flies that made the faulty {beta} - III? spectrin were slower and more likely to change direction, and thus traveled shorter distances. ❋ BJS (2010)

SCA5 results from a faulty gene for {beta} - III? spectrin. ❋ BJS (2010)

The complex containing {beta} - III? spectrin, dynactin, and dynein might not just haul cargoes. ❋ BJS (2010)

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 ❋ Michaela Norum Et Al. (2010)

Study shows how disruption of spectrin-actin network causes lens cells in the eye to lose shape BBS proteins shown to run an export business that protects cilia ❋ BJS (2010)

How the mutant protein damages Purkinje cells remains uncertain. {beta} - III? spectrin stabilizes synapses, suggesting that synapse deterioration might doom the cells. ❋ BJS (2010)

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