subunit
Britishnoun
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Rusich is a subunit of the Wagner group.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025
These dephosphorylation enzymes consist of a catalytic subunit responsible for dephosphorylation activity and a regulatory subunit controlling the enzyme's subcellular localization and enzyme activity.
From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024
"But there are also proteins that are synthesized by the mitochondria themselves. One of these is ND5, a subunit of complex I of the respiratory chain," explained Professor Kristina Friedland.
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2024
When the new actin subunit arrives, its incorporation onto the filament destabilizes the formin arrangement and requires the stable half-ring to step onto the new subunit and become loose, while the other half-ring becomes stable.
From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2024
Samples were screened for corallicolid infection using polymerase chain reaction -- a laboratory nucleic acid amplification technique -- and sequencing of nuclear small subunit rRNA.
From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024
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