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Addressin

The protein encoded by this gene is an endothelial cell adhesion molecule that interacts preferentially with the leukocyte beta7 integrin LPAM-1 (alpha4 / beta7), L-selectin, and VLA-4 (alpha4 / beta1) on myeloid cells to direct leukocytes into mucosal and inflamed tissues.

Alan Turing Memorial

The cast bronze bench carries in relief the text 'Alan Mathison Turing 1912-1954' and the motto 'Founder of Computer Science' as it would appear if encoded by an Enigma machine; 'IEKYF RQMSI ADXUO KVKZC GUBJ'.

ANK3

The protein encoded by this gene, ankyrin-3 is an immunologically distinct gene product from ankyrins ANK1 and ANK2, and was originally found at the axonal initial segment and nodes of Ranvier of neurons in the central and peripheral nervous systems.

Arsenate-reducing bacteria

It appears that arsenate reduction by the Desulfovibrio strain Ben-RA is catalyzed by an arsenate reductase that is encoded by a chromosomally-borne gene shown to be homologous to the arsC gene of the Escherichia coli plasmid, R773 ars system.

Avon Barksdale

The pager messages were encoded to prevent easy tracing of the telephones used, all of which were public telephones.

Bard

The legendary suicide of The Last Bard (c. 1283), was commemorated in the poem The Bards of Wales by the Hungarian poet János Arany in 1857, as a way of encoded resistance to the suppressive politics of his own time.

CENPH

The protein encoded by this gene colocalizes with inner kinetochore plate proteins CENP-A and CENP-C in both interphase and metaphase.

Climm

It is internationalized; German, English, and other translations are available, and it supports sending and receiving acknowledged and non-acknowledged Unicode-encoded messages (it even understands UTF-8 messages for message types the ICQ protocol does not use them for).

CLPP

ATP-dependent Clp protease proteolytic subunit, an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CLPP gene

Coumarin

The enzyme encoded by the gene UGT1A8 has glucuronidase activity with many substrates including coumarins.

CTNNBIP1

The encoded protein is a negative regulator of the Wnt signaling pathway.

DnaX

The eukaryotic equivalent to the DNA clamp loader is Replication Factor C, which is encoded by RFC1, RFC2, RFC3, RFC4, and RFC5.

DQ7

HLA-DQ7, an HLA-DQ receptor serotype in which the beta chain is encoded by DQB1*0301 gene.

Dyskerin

The protein encoded by this gene is related to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cbf5p and Drosophila melanogaster Nop60B proteins.

Enolase

There are three subunits of enolase, α, β, and γ, each encoded by a separate gene that can combine to form five different isoenzymes: αα, αβ, αγ, ββ, and γγ.

EPH receptor B4

The protein encoded by this gene binds to ephrin-B2 and plays an essential role in vascular development.

FASTQ format

Starting with Illumina 1.3 and before Illumina 1.8, the format encoded a Phred quality score from 0 to 62 using ASCII 64 to 126 (although in raw read data Phred scores from 0 to 40 only are expected).

Fieldata

The direct successor to the UNIVAC 1100 is the Unisys 2200 series computers, which use Fieldata to this day (although ASCII is now also common with each character encoded in 1/4 of a word, or 9 bits).

GGT5

GGTLA1, an enzyme that is in humans encoded by the GGT5 gene

GLI3

The protein encoded by this gene localizes in the cytoplasm and activates patched Drosophila homolog (PTCH1) gene expression.

Glycerate dehydrogenase

Glyoxylate Reductase/Hydroxypyruvate Reductase (GRHPR) is the glycerate dehydrogenase found, predominantly in the liver, of humans encoded by the gene GRHPR.

GSM 03.40

Some ASCII characters and the Euro sign did not fit into the GSM 7 bit default alphabet and must be encoded using two septets.

HLA-DP

DPα and DPβ are encoded by two loci, HLA-DPA1 and HLA-DPB1, that are found in the MHC Class II (or HLA-D) region in the Human Leukocyte Antigen complex on human chromosome 6 (see protein boxes on right for links).

Htra2

HtrA serine peptidase 2, an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the HTRA2 gene

I Ching

The other encoded I Ching symbols were added to the Unicode Standard in April, 2003 with the release of version 4.0.

I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This Is My Horse

The download-only package is a .zip file containing a 192kbit/s encoded .mp3 file, a 6-minute QuickTime slide-show of black-and-white photographs set to ambient sounds, and a PDF of the CD insert.

IGFBP7 RNA editing

Insulin like growth factor binding protein 7 (IGFBP7) is a 282 amino acid long protein encoded by the IGFBP7 gene.

International email

International email (IDN email or Intl email) is email that contains international, UTF-8 encoded, characters (characters which do not exist in the ASCII character set) in the email header.

Kallikrein 7

KLK7, a serine protease that in humans is encoded by the KLK7 gene

Metallica v. Napster, Inc.

Napster was a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service, founded by Shawn Fanning, that emphasized sharing digitally encoded music as MP3 audio files.

Mitochondrial biogenesis

The NRFs, in turn, activate the mitochondrial transcription factor A (tfam), which is directly responsible for transcribing nuclear-encoded mitochondrial proteins.

Neuropsin

OPN5, a protein that in humans is encoded by the OPN5 gene

New literacies

According to Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel from this "social practice" perspectives, "new literacies" can refer to “new socially recognized ways of generating, communicating and negotiating meaningful content through the medium of encoded texts within contexts of participation in Discourses (or, as members of Discourses) ”.

NRF1

Nrf1, together with Nrf2, mediates the biogenomic coordination between nuclear and mitochondrial genomes by directly regulating the expression of several nuclear-encoded ETC proteins, and indirectly regulating the three mitochondrial-encoded COX subunit genes by activating mtTFA, mtTFB1, and mtTFB2.

Pectinesterase

Recently, the systematic sequencing of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome has led to the identification of 66 open reading frames that are annotated as pectinesterases, most of which are encoded as large pre-proproteins.

Peroxisomal targeting signal

It was found that the PTS1 receptor is encoded by the PEX5 gene.

PhiKMV-like viruses

Although phiKMV phage resembles the well-studied podovirus T7 in overall genome architecture, it was the first known T7-like phage which encoded a single-subunit RNA polymerase gene downstream its DNA metabolism genes instead of in the early genomic region.

Pulse-frequency modulation

It is analogous to Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM), in which the magnitude of an analog signal is encoded in the duty cycle of a square wave.

Ribophorin

Consequently, defects in the genes that encode these proteins may cause congenital disorders and devastating consequences; ribophorin I and II are encoded by the genes RPN1 and RPN2 respectively.

SERBP1

Plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 RNA-binding protein (serbp1, not to be confused with srebp1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SERBP1 gene.

SFRS6

The encoded nuclear protein belongs to the splicing factor SR family and has been shown to bind with and modulate another member of the family, SFRS12.

ST6GAL1

The encoded protein, which is normally found in the Golgi but which can be proteolytically processed to a soluble form, is involved in the generation of the cell-surface carbohydrate determinants and differentiation antigens HB-6, CDw75, and CD76.

Torsin A

The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the AAA family of adenosine triphosphatases (ATPases), is related to the Clp protease/heat shock family and is expressed prominently in the substantia nigra pars compacta.

Transnistria Governorate

Originally on history.pedclub.ru/shoa; archived on the Internet Archive 21 October 2004; page is encoded in Win-1251.

TSP-1

Thrombospondin 1, a protein that in humans in encoded by the THBS1 gene

Viterbi decoder

There are other algorithms for decoding a convolutionally encoded stream (for example, the Fano algorithm).


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