Sentence examples for may be flanked by from inspiring English sources
Mr Putin may be flanked by China's Xi Jinping, but few other notables.
Paneled doors may be flanked by fluted Ionic columns, framed by narrow windows known as side lights and topped by delicate fan lights, elliptical windows with leaded panes in a fan-shaped array.
In S. cerevisiae, replication origins are mainly located at intergenic regions (IGR), which may be flanked by genes transcribed co-directionally, convergently or divergently.
The central arrow may be preceded by spatial or temporal cues denoting where and when the arrow will appear, and may be flanked by other arrows (hereafter, flankers) pointing in the same or the opposite direction.
Another scenario that could contribute to the persistence of recombination between myo-sex and the M-locus is that the M-locus may be flanked by recombination hotspots, which may have a high intrinsic rate of recombination.
Indeed, escape genes may be flanked by sequences permissive for their externalisation or looping out from the Xist compartment to be in contact with the transcription factor in the nucleoplasm (reviewed in Heard and Bickmore 2007).
The ability of NHEJ to both create and remove introns suggests an interesting scenario in intron evolution: introns gained by NHEJ may commonly be flanked by direct repeats [ 61], and introns flanked by direct repeats may be preferentially deleted by NHEJ [ 47, 57].
We also noticed a quirky tendency of some introns in this study to be flanked by direct repeats, reminiscent of the pairs of pointer repeats that flank IESs and may facilitate their removal.
The Rockrose building will be flanked by two parks.
By contrast, proofreading may be less efficient when focal bases are flanked by a G or C. G/C nucleotides stabilize the pairing between strands and may thereby facilitate mismatched base pairs, as a mismatch will be less likely to destabilize the helix sufficiently to trigger proofreading.
Therefore, ERBB2 is flanked by many complex genomic regions that may not be sufficiently investigated by current genomic technologies.
