Noun, : social catalyses occasioned by controversial writings. From Dictionary.com.
It is now well established that ribosomal RNA catalyses peptide bond formation during translation. From Wordnik.com. [Advanced Information: The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine] Reference
The downturn - and the human misery it catalyses - makes wholesale government waste all the more disgraceful. From Wordnik.com. [Where the money could go] Reference
Glucose oxidase is an enzyme produced and purified from Aspergillus niger which catalyses the oxidation of glucose. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference
Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker receive half the prize for their work on how the enzyme ATP synthase catalyses the formation of ATP. From Wordnik.com. [Press Release: The 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference
Thymidine dimers occur when UV light catalyses a reaction where two thymine residues bond with one another and form a bulge in the DNA. From Wordnik.com. [Browsing the Latest Issue of Scientific American] Reference
It empowers and catalyses innovative initiatives in the field of international cooperation in science, in particular through networks and capacity building activities. From Wordnik.com. [Science, Education & Society: International Day for Biological Diversity] Reference
It was then found that in contrast to the previously studied catalyses, here the reagents themselves interact at a measurable rate even before another substance has been added. From Wordnik.com. [Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture] Reference
This is why I encourage governments to announce that some portion of their infrastructure will run on Linux - it catalyses the whole ecosystem to make their existing capacity public. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Shuttleworth's Ubuntu manifesto] Reference
I have already stressed that there is no decisive reason to assume that all catalyses can be attributed to such intermediate reactions; yet it must be conceded that no other equally effective principle has hitherto been found in the theory of catalysis. From Wordnik.com. [Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Your worrying about risk is like worrying that Curries experiments might bring together a specific combination of elements that just happen to be instable and whose instability catalyses the instability of all other matter, and leads to all matter being radiated away. From Wordnik.com. [The BBC on the LHC] Reference
In fact, our studies show that serine meets the first two criteria, and recent work24 has demonstrated that serine catalyses certain asymmetric aldol reactions with high enantioselectivity; it has also been highlighted as one of a small number of amino acids likely to have played an important role in prebiotic chemistry25, 26. From Wordnik.com. [Chirality of life: Another false positive? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
It will hence be abundantly clear again that a special problem of chemical kinetics is involved in the special case of these catalyses and that until a way has been found whereby a rate of chemical reaction can generally be calculated in advance as a function of the chemical nature of the reagents and perhaps of the special form of the reaction equation, the catalysis problem cannot satisfactorily be answered. From Wordnik.com. [Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture] Reference
It should minimize the element of obscurity and ambiguity which catalyses cheating. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
This enzyme catalyses the first and rate-limiting step in sphingolipid metabolism in all species studied to date. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
I don't quite know why, but hypocrisy is the element in political discourse which catalyses my most murderous responses. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference
Normally, NAGA catalyses the hydrolysis of a different type of substrate and does not recognize the same substrates as GLA. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
It is produced by a process that catalyses the functional molecular groups present in the specially selected lubricant carriers. From Wordnik.com. [Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news] Reference
A report of the research, entitled 'Jmjd6 catalyses lysl-hydroxylation of U2AF65, a protein associated with RNA splicing,' is published in this week's Science. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The heterotrimeric influenza virus polymerase, containing the PA, PB1 and PB2 proteins, catalyses viral RNA replication and transcription in the nucleus of infected cells. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
Form I Rubisco (ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase), a complex of eight large (RbcL) and eight small (RbcS) subunits, catalyses the fixation of atmospheric CO. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
Laccase catalyses the oxidation of phenols, polyphenols and anilines by one-electron abstraction, with the concomitant reduction of oxygen to water in a four-electron transfer process. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
In this study we provide evidence that transglutaminase 2 (TG2), an enzyme that catalyses protein crosslinking reactions, is a transcriptional target of HIF-1 to enhance the survival of hypoxic cells. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
Another copy of P luxI controls the production of AiiA, a protein that catalyses the degradation of AHL, and a third copy triggers the synthesis of a variant of green fluorescent protein called yemGFP. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
Although the heart and skeletal muscles are the tissues richest in carnitine, they cannot synthesise it as they do not have gamma-butyrobetaine hydroxylase, which catalyses the last phase of the biosynthetic process. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Scientists uncover mysterious workings of cholera bacteria] Reference
October 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Australian scientists have found that the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans catalyses the biomineralisation of gold by transforming toxic gold compounds to their metallic form using active cellular mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
Times feels "you're never entirely sure where you are ... there are no allusions to the empowering nature of punk that catalyses the tale; and strangest of all, there's not enough made of the funny, funky music that made him filmworthy in the first place" (2 stars). From Wordnik.com. [Londonist] Reference
Or at least it wasn't until a smart cookie at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University found a way to transform recycled glass and construction waste into what he calls "Eco-Block", a brick that catalyses nitrous oxides in the air around it by converting them into non-hazardous substances. From Wordnik.com. [BWG] Reference
The word is that Lew’s screenplay has originality that’s refreshing and raw emotion, which was the catalyses for the producers to pounce on it. From Wordnik.com. [Gus Van Sant and Brett Easton Ellis Pen Script Together] Reference
Discussions of the origins of homochirality always seem to miss the possibility of autocatalysis, i.e. a reaction in which the product catalyses it’s own formation. From Wordnik.com. [Abiogenesis: How plausible are the current models? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
It not only feeds families, it also provides jobs and catalyses the growth of rural businesses and broader development, "he said. From Wordnik.com. [Mail & Guardian Online] Reference
If as we suspect regulatory change catalyses the market for unstructured data management, the obvious precedent is the structured database market. ". From Wordnik.com. [Latest stories] Reference
+ 3 NADP+ + 3 H2 O (The heme-thiolate enzyme, P - 450, catalyses successive hydroxylations of the 14a-methyl group and C-15, followed by elimination as formate leaving the 14 (15) double bond. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
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