bob(11) (iou) and furin (medicine)

bob(11) (iou)

bob verb4. Infl. -bb-. E17.
[Origin unkn.: cf. BOB noun1. Prob. earlier in BOBTAIL.]
verb intrans. Fish with a bob (for eels). E17.
verb trans. Provide with a bob; esp. dock, cut short, (a horse's tail etc.). M17.
b. Cut (a person's hair) short and even all round. E20.
verb intrans. Ride on a bob-sleigh. Chiefly as bobbing verbal noun. L19.

furin (medicine)

furin
<protein> Subtilisin like eukaryotic endopeptidase with substrate specificity for consensus sequence Arg X Lys/Arg Arg at the cleavage site.

Furin is known to activate the haemagglutinin of fowl plague virus and will cleave the HIV envolope glycoprotein (gp160) into two portions, gp120 and gp41, a necessary step in making the virus fusion competent.

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