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Minor capsid protein P30, tectiviridae
Minor capsid protein P30 of bacteriophage PRD1 (Tectiviridae), a 9 kDa, 60-copy edge cementing and tape-measure protein essential for capsid assembly; distinct from Bam35's muramidase P30.
Minor extracellular protease Epr, GA-like domain
Minor extracellular protease Epr, GA-like domain (InterPro IPR054725) is the C-terminal domain signature of Epr, a 70 kDa minor extracellular serine protease of Bacillus subtilis (gene epr, P16396), essential for swarming motility and CSF signal processing.
Minor histocompatibility protein HMSD
HMSD (Histocompatibility (Minor) Serpin Domain containing) is a human chromosome 18 pseudogene whose serpin-like protein is the precursor of ACC-6, an HLA-B44-restricted, hematopoietic-restricted minor histocompatibility antigen generated by SNP-controlled alternative splicing.
Minor ice hockey
Minor ice hockey: organized youth ice hockey under USA Hockey and Hockey Canada, from house league to AAA. Key facts: body checking from bantam/U15, neck guards mandatory under 18, 387,910 US youth players 2022-23.
Minor J. Coon
Minor J. Coon (1921–2018) was an American biochemist at the University of Michigan who resolved and reconstituted the liver microsomal cytochrome P450 system central to drug metabolism.
Minor league
Minor league: professional sports leagues below the major leagues in North America, notably Minor League Baseball (since 1901) and hockey's AHL (Triple-A, formed 1936) and ECHL (Double-A, 1988), which develop players for MLB, the NHL, and the NBA through affiliations.
Minor League Baseball
Minor League Baseball (MiLB), founded 1901, is the governing body for 120 MLB-affiliated minor league teams in the U.S. and Canada, restructured under MLB control in 2021.
Minor planet
A minor planet, also called a planetoid, is a body orbiting the Sun that is neither a planet nor a comet, including asteroids, centaurs, and trans-Neptunian objects.
Minor Planet Center
The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official clearinghouse for observations and orbits of minor planets, comets, and natural satellites, operating at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Minor Planet Electronic Circulars
Minor Planet Electronic Circulars (MPECs) are electronic bulletins issued by the Minor Planet Center, generally daily since 1993, announcing discoveries, orbits, and identifications of minor planets and comets.
Minor Rock Edicts
The Minor Rock Edicts (लघु शिलालेख) are short inscriptions issued by Ashoka, commonly held to be his first engraved edicts and India's earliest decipherable writing.
Minor scale
Minor scale: natural, harmonic, and melodic minor forms, seven-note scales with a minor third above the tonic, also called the Aeolian mode; distinct from major scale and modal variants like Dorian.
Minor Sherlock Holmes characters
Minor Sherlock Holmes characters: Mycroft Holmes, Irene Adler, Mrs Hudson, Colonel Sebastian Moran, the Scotland Yarders, and Baker Street Irregulars of Conan Doyle's 1887–1927 canon of four novels and fifty-six short stories.
Minor spliceosomal snRNAs (U11, U12, U4atac and U6atac)
Minor spliceosomal snRNAs U11, U12, U4atac and U6atac form the RNA core of the U12-dependent minor spliceosome, which removes rare U12-type introns (about 700 in humans), sharing U5 with the major spliceosome.
Minor spliceosome
The minor spliceosome, also called the U12-dependent spliceosome, is one of two pre-mRNA splicing machineries in eukaryotes including humans, removing rare U12-type introns found in roughly 700 to 800 human genes.
Minor Surgical Procedures
Minor surgical procedures (minor surgery) are superficial operations done under local anesthesia with low risk of life-threatening complications, such as suturing, lesion excision, and abscess drainage, often performed in offices, clinics, and procedure rooms rather than operating theaters.
Minor Threat
Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band from Washington, D.C., active from 1980 to 1983, whose song "Straight Edge" named the drug-free straight edge lifestyle.
Minor tombs in the Valley of the Kings
The minor tombs in the Valley of the Kings are small, mostly undecorated tombs at Luxor, cut mainly in the mid-Eighteenth Dynasty for royal family members and privileged individuals.
Minor White
Minor White, an American photographer and teacher, co-founded Aperture magazine in 1952, developed the photographic sequence, and taught at MIT, where he founded the Creative Photography Laboratory.
Minor-planet designation
Minor-planet designation, also called asteroid designation, is the formal identifier for an asteroid, consisting of a provisional designation, a permanent number, and optionally a name.
Minori
Minori (ancient Rheginna Minor) is an Amalfi Coast town in Salerno province, Italy, home to the Villa romana e Antiquarium, a well-preserved 1st-century-AD Roman maritime villa with triclinium-nymphaeum, closed for restoration since August 2025.
Minori Chihara
Minori Chihara (茅原実里), born 1980, is a Japanese voice actress and anison singer known for Yuki Nagato in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and 11 studio albums.
Minority carrier lifetime
Minority carrier lifetime is the average time an excess minority carrier exists in a semiconductor before recombining; it strongly reflects defects and limits solar cell performance.
Minority game
The minority game is an agent-based model in which an odd number of agents choose between two sides each round, and only the minority side wins.
Minority government
Minority government: a cabinet whose parties hold fewer than half the seats in the responsible parliament. Also called unsupported or minority cabinet. Survives via confidence and supply deals or issue-by-issue majorities; about one-third of parliamentary democracies are typically ruled this way.
Minority group
Minority group: sociological concept defined by subordinate power rather than numbers, from Wirth's 1945 definition to UN legal protections, types, and contested usage.
Minority Health
Minority health: the physical and mental health of minority groups and related health disparities; NIMHD and HHS OMH definitions, MeSH indexing, US institutional history, WHO social determinants, and intervention evidence.
Minority language
Minority language: a language used by a group smaller than the rest of a state's population, distinct from official languages. Also called regional or minority languages; defined by the European Charter, protected by UNESCO frameworks, taught in multilingual education.
Minority Report (film)
Minority Report is a 2002 American science fiction thriller directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 novelette, and starring Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell.
Minority Report (TV series)
Minority Report (2015 Fox series), created by Max Borenstein, a sci-fi crime drama sequel to Spielberg's 2002 film, set in 2065 Washington DC with Stark Sands and Meagan Good; cancelled after 10 episodes.