Definitions
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- adjective Passing or occurring across a membrane.
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- adjective biology traversing a cellular
membrane - adjective of or pertaining to a transmembrane protein or segment
- noun cytology a transmembrane
protein , or the transmembrane portion of a protein
Etymologies
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Examples
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The parts of the molecule that pass through membrane are called transmembrane domains.
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The parts of the molecule that pass through membrane are called transmembrane domains.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Those "transmembrane" protein gateways match the architecture of the membrane, with a hydrophobic center section bounded by two water soluble, or hydrophilic, layers.
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Those "transmembrane" protein gateways match the architecture of the membrane, with a hydrophobic center section bounded by two water soluble, or hydrophilic, layers.
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Given this overlap in infection and human cell engraftment patterns, it may also be possible to deliver molecules in addition to cytokines, such as transmembrane receptors, that require direct cell-to-cell contact to mediate their effects.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ryan M. O'Connell et al. 2010
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The mutation, called G551D, is in a gene called the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator.
FDA Approves Cystic Fibrosis Drug Jonathan D. Rockoff 2012
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Peter Mitchell who proposed an elaborate but basically "unphysical" mechanism for this transmembrane proton transport received a Nobel Prize.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Friedemann Freund - The Future of Forecasting Earthquakes SETI Institute 2011
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Peter Mitchell who proposed an elaborate but basically "unphysical" mechanism for this transmembrane proton transport received a Nobel Prize.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Friedemann Freund - The Future of Forecasting Earthquakes SETI Institute 2011
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Langzhou Song et al., “Structure of staphylococcal alpha-hemolysin, a heptameric transmembrane pore,” Science 274 1996, 1859–1866.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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For example, we know that cystic fibrosis manifests due to an irregularity in the ability to produce cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR).
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