| 释义 |
Okazaki Biol.|əʊkəˈzɑːkɪ|
The name of Reiji Okazaki (1930–75), Japanese molecular biologist, used attrib. to designate fragments formed during the replication of chromosomal DNA, first described by Okazaki et al. in 1968 (Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. LIX. 598).
1969Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. LXIV. 1065 Some of the Okazaki fragments are present in a single-stranded state in cell lysates prepared under nondenaturing conditions. 1971Jrnl. Molecular Biol. LVII. 351 The assembly of small fragments of newly synthesized DNA—the so-called Okazaki fragments..—to form a larger structure. 1975Nature 4 Sept. 76/3 The synthesis of new DNA strands during the process of DNA duplication seems to occur in rather short sections (now known to everyone as ‘Okazaki pieces’). |