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The phrase "a specific protein" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a particular type of protein that is being discussed or studied in a scientific or medical context.
Example: "Researchers are focusing on a specific protein that plays a crucial role in cell signaling."
Alternatives: "a particular protein" or "a certain protein".
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Now, Swedish and American researchers have discovered that a specific protein plays a major role.
In a typical sensor, an antibody, which has been attached to a fluorescent molecule, hooks onto a specific protein.
Messenger RNA (mRNA) The exons are spliced together into a strand of messenger RNA, a recipe for a specific protein.
The antibody, called NMP179, which is tagged with a color or fluorescent probe, latches onto a specific protein within the abnormal cells.
When a gene is activated, the cell copies the gene's information onto another molecule and then uses this chemical transcript to synthesize a specific protein.
The project engendered much skepticism because it was not at all obvious that any chemical could be found that would inhibit a specific protein kinase without shutting down them all and wreaking havoc in the body's cells.
Within the DNA sequence of a chromosome are the genes (probably 100,000 or more in the human genome), each of which carries instructions for a cell to make a specific protein that the body needs.
Motorola will be the first company to use Incyte's portfolio of patented genetic information to develop, manufacture and sell chips that can determine which genes make a specific protein or other building block of the human body.
A few mutations in a gene, which is a section of DNA that provides the blueprint for a specific protein, can result in a protein that no longer folds properly.
The researchers, who described their work in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, used a specific protein that binds to maltose, and through a bit of genetic engineering added fluorescent proteins at either end.
Translation of the blueprint for a specific protein encoded in a messenger RNA molecule begins on a free ribosome.
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