Meaning of toeprint | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The mark left by a toe.
2. A very small footprint (amount of physical surface taken up by equipment).
   informal
3. A measure of 30S-mRNA binding.

Examples

“A misleading toeprint may not only be planted on the scene of crime, but just as well on crime objects such as anonymous letters and other articles. In that case there is full and quiet opportunity for the "planting".”

““It was, in fact, her natural walk,” he wrote in his autobiography. “Her footprints on a beach would be in astraight line, the heel descending exactly before the last toeprint, throwing her pelvis into motion."”

“Total toeprint including keyboard for the miniature workstation is 83 square inches […]”

“The tiny, shall we say, "toeprint" of the machine is due to a remarkable feat of miniaturization by Intel […]”

“In the absence of IF3, the 10-fold molar excess of tRNAᴾʰᵉ produces a strong +18 toeprint relative to the +15 toeprint.”

“In the case of the entrapment model on the contrary, one does not expect the toeprint to disappear with increasing repressor concentrations, since in this case, both repressor and ribosome can bind the same mRNA.”

“Lastly, a "toeprint" of 30S subunits bound to T4 gene 32 mRNA has been observed with MMLV reverse transcriptase; while the experiment has not been quantitated, appearance of a signal at a subunit concentration of 0.02 μM is consistent with a binding constant on the order of 10⁷ M⁻¹ (Hartz et al., 1991).”

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