| GPEBP | granulocyte colony-stimulating factor promoter element binding protein |
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| IREBP | iron-responsive element binding protein |
| FRP | Follicle Regulatory Protein |
| IRF | idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis; impulse response function; interferon regulatory factor; intern... |
| IRTU | integrating regulatory transcription unit |
| sterol o-acyltransferase | <enzyme> An enzyme that catalyses the formation of cholesterol esters by the direct transfer of the fatty acid group from a fatty acyl CoA derivative. This enzyme has been found in the adrenal gland, gonads, liver, intestinal mucosa, and aorta of many mammalian species. Chemical name: Acyl-CoA:cholesterol O-acyltransferase Registry number: EC 2.3.1.26 (12 Dec 1998) |
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| delta 14-sterol reductase | <enzyme> Reduces ignosterol to ergosterol; NADPH-dependent enzyme that catalyses the formal trans addition of hydrogen across the 14,15-pi bond in 8,14-sterol dienes; forms 4,4-dimethylzymosterol in lanosterol metabolism pathway from 4,4-dimethyl-5alpha-cholesta-8,14,25-trien-3beta-ol or from 4,4-dimethyl-cholesta-8,14,24-trienol; erg24 from saccharomyces cerevisiae Registry number: EC 1.3.1.- Synonym: ignosterol reductase, delta 8,14-sterol delta 14-reductase, 14,15-sterol reductase, delta 8,14-steroid 14-reductase, delta 14,15-reductase, sterol c-14 reductase, c-14 sterol reductase, erg24 gene product (26 Jun 1999) |
| delta-22 sterol desaturase | <enzyme> Catalyses the formation of the sterol side delta-22-double bond from 23-hydroxysterols Registry number: EC 1.3.3.- Synonym: c-22 sterol desaturase, cyp61, cytochrome p-45061, sterol delta22-desaturase (26 Jun 1999) |
| delta 24-sterol methyltransferase | <enzyme> Substrate sterols may be replaced by specific sterol Registry number: EC 2.1.1.41 Synonym: s-adenosylmethionine zymosterol methyltransferase, s-adenosylmethionine-delta 24-sterol-c-methyltransferase, sterol c-24 s-adenosylmethionine methyltransferase, sed6 protein, erg6 protein, (s)-adenosyl-l-methionine-delta 24(25)-sterol methyltransferase (26 Jun 1999) |
| delta 5,7-sterol delta-7-reductase | <enzyme> Involved in cholesterol biosynthesis, introduces the delta-5 bond into delta 7-cholestenol to form 7-dehydrocholesterol Registry number: EC 1.3.1.- Synonym: delta 7-sterol reductase, delta 7-sterol desaturase, delta 7-sterol 5-desaturase (26 Jun 1999) |
| delta(8)-delta(7)-sterol isomerase | <enzyme> Catalyses anaerobic conversion of sterol-8-ene to sterol-7-ene; do not confuse with erg-2 protein from retroviridae Registry number: EC 5.3.3.- Synonym: delta 8 - delta 7 sterol isomerase, c-8 sterol isomerase, erg2 gene product, fungal, sterol 8-isomerase (26 Jun 1999) |
| 4-methyl sterol demethylase | <chemical> This term is used to describe 10 reactions in the collective processes of monooxygenation, decarboxylation and reduction, which, together account for the conversion of each of the two 4-methyl groups of lanosterol to carbon dioxide Chemical name: demethylase, methyl sterol Synonym: 4,4-dimethylzymosterol monooxygenase, sterol 4-demethylase (26 Jun 1999) |
| formyl sterol oxidase | <enzyme> Converts sterol 4-aldehyde to a carboxylic acid in presence of NADH or NADPH Registry number: EC 1.2.1.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| amphoteric element | An element one or more of whose oxides unite with water to form hydroxides that may act as acids or as bases (e.g., aluminum). (05 Mar 2000) |
| anatomical element | Any anatomical unit, such as a cell. Synonym: morphologic element. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vessel element | Part of a xylem vessel in a higher plant, arising from a single cell. The end walls are perforated and may completely disappear, giving rise to a continuous tube. The remaining walls are thickened and lignified and there is no protoplast. (18 Nov 1997) |
| volume element | See: voxel. (05 Mar 2000) |
| P element | <molecular biology> A class of Drosophila transposon, widely used as a vector for reporter genes, for efficient germ line transformation and for enhancer trap or insertional mutagenesis studies. (18 Nov 1997) |
| mobile genetic element | <molecular biology> Small, mobile DNA sequences that can replicate and insert copies at random sites within chromosomes. They have nearly identical sequences at each end, oppositely oriented (inverted) repeats and code for the enzyme, transposase, that catalyses their insertion. Bacteria have two types of transposon, simple transposons that have only the genes needed for insertion and complex transposons that contain genes in addition to those needed for insertion. Eukaryotes contain two classes of mobile genetic elements, the first are like bacterial transposons in that DNA sequences move directly. The second class (retrotransposons) move by producing RNA that is transcribed, by reverse transcriptase, into DNA which is then inserted at a new site. (13 Nov 1997) |
| picture element | <microscopy> Any segment of a video scan line whose dimension along the line is equal to the line spacing. (05 Aug 1998) |