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sequestration
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sequestration

In law, a writ authorizing a law-enforcement official to take into custody the property of a defendant in order to enforce a judgment or to preserve the property until a judgment is rendered. In some civil-law jurisdictions, contested property may be deposited with a third party until it is determined to whom it properly belongs.



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Since the structure of Dps resembles that of an iron-binding protein called ferritin, the scientists suggested that the Dps complex sequesters iron within it, preventing the metal from helping to produce DNA-damaging free radicals.
CCS technology separates CO2 from a gas stream, compresses it to reduce volume, transports it by pipeline to a storage site and sequesters it in geological formations.
Additional studies have shown that TB4 accelerates wound healing, sequesters actin and down-regulates specific inflammatory cytokines such as Interleukin-1, Interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor.
 
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