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shirty (iou) and glue proteins, drosophila (medicine)


shirty (iou)



shirty adjective. M19.
[from SHIRT noun + -Y1.]
Annoyed; bad-tempered. (Cf. keep one's shirt on s.v. SHIRT noun.) colloq. M19.
A. N. Wilson His mother had taken it the wrong way and been rather shirty.
Resembling or modelled on a shirt. M20.
Vogue Jersey suit in..red with a shirty top.
shirtily adverb L20.
shirtiness noun L19.

glue proteins, drosophila (medicine)


glue proteins, drosophila


Glycosylated proteins which are part of the salivary glue that drosophila larvae secrete as a means of fixing themselves to an external substrate for the duration of the pre-pupal and pupal period. The proteins which consist of at least eight polypeptides are encoded in the third larval instar by the sgs-3, sgs-4, sgs-7 and sgs-8 genes.