Sentences with phrase «initiation step»
The phrase "initiation step" refers to the first necessary action or task that needs to be done to start a process or activity. It is the initial stage that sets things in motion. Full definition
T. H.: Back when I joined, my friends had just discovered that the binding of an initiator tRNA [transfer RNA] was the key for starting hemoglobin synthesis, and we fairly soon found out that all the inhibitory factors I had been studying in New York blocked this very initiation step.
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Curcumin is taking its rightful place among a small handful of agents that fight cancer at the genetic level by inhibiting ten critical initiation steps necessary for development and progression of the disease.
As the initiation step, viral glycoprotein gp120 interacts with CD4, which in turn triggers the binding of gp120's V3 loop to the N - terminus, ECL2, ECL3 and the ligand binding cavity of CXCR4 [11].
Bernstein et al. «Role for A Bidentate Ribonuclease in the Initiation Step of RNA Interference», Nature, 409: 363 - 366, 2001.