Sentence examples for leaky cap from inspiring English sources
The well has been gushing largely unchecked since an old, leaky cap was removed from the wellhead Saturday to make way for the new one.
The authors propose that this reduction is independent of microtubules acetylation generated by HDAC6 inhibition, and may be the result of the generation of a "leaky cap" at the plus-end of microtubules, impeding both attachment and detachment of tubulin subunits [25].
As opposed to Arp2/3 complex, formin dimers can nucleate and elongate actin filaments by surfing on their barbed ends in a process also known as leaky capping [16].
Partly it was the car my wife and I drove then, a tiny, underpowered Austin America whose hood had a habit of popping open at high speeds and whose leaky distributor cap was mounted in such a way that the car would stall after going through a puddle.
THE weightlifting auditorium has a leaky roof.
Huge tarps suspended from the leaky ceiling sag with water.
The F-actin barbed end capping activity is due to the "leaky capper" property of FH2 [13]–[16], which causes rate reduction in both polymerization and depolymerization of F-actin.
The well-conserved FH2 (formin homology 2) domain [Smart: SM00498, Interpro: IPR015425, Pfam: PF02181] can nucleate new actin filaments by a unique „leaky barbed-end cap" mechanism, and in some situations acts as a capping protein (for a review see [ 2, 3]).
