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PLATZ transcription factor
PLATZ (PLant AT-rich sequence and Zinc-binding) transcription factors are plant-specific zinc-dependent DNA-binding proteins, first found in pea (PLATZ1, 2001), that bind A/T-rich sequences and regulate plant development and salt, drought, and disease stress responses.
Platzi
Platzi is a Latin American online education platform selling subscription access to Spanish-language courses in technology, design, marketing, business, and English, with AI-driven learning paths.
PLAU
PLAU (Gene ID 5328, also uPA, u-PA, QPD) is the human gene encoding urokinase-type plasminogen activator, a serine protease converting plasminogen to plasmin; with PAI-1 it is a guideline-recommended breast cancer biomarker.
PLAUR
PLAUR (uPAR, CD87) gene on chromosome 19q13.31 encodes a GPI-anchored 55-60 kDa uPA receptor with three LU domains; regulates plasmin activation, signaling, immunity, cancer, and soluble suPAR biomarker levels.
Plausible deniability
Plausible deniability: the ability to deny knowledge of or responsibility for covert actions because evidence of involvement is concealed; rooted in Eisenhower-era CIA covert action, formalized in NSC 5412/2 and the 1991 statute, and eroded by modern attribution technology.
Plautine comedy
Plautine comedy is the body of Roman comedies written in the manner of the playwright Plautus, Latin adaptations of Greek New Comedy performed at Roman festivals.
Plautus
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Roman comic playwright from Sarsina, Umbria, active late 3rd to early 2nd century BCE; 21 surviving fabulae palliatae adapted from Greek New Comedy, including Amphitruo, Menaechmi, and Pseudolus.
PLAVE
PLAVE (플레이브) is a five-member South Korean virtual boy group under Vlast, whose animated characters are performed live by human actors using motion capture, debuting in 2023.
Plavi Orkestar
Plavi Orkestar (Плави Оркестар, "Blue Orchestra") is a pop-rock band formed in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, in 1983 and fronted by Saša Lošić, whose 1985 debut album Soldatski bal sold over 600,000 copies.
Pļaviņu Novads
Pļaviņu Novads (Pļaviņas Municipality) was a Latvian municipality, 2009–2021, comprising Pļaviņas town and Aiviekstes, Klintaines, and Vietalvas parishes; since 1 July 2021 it forms part of Aizkraukles novads.
Plaxico Burress
Plaxico Burress, born 1977 in Norfolk, VA, is a former NFL wide receiver (Michigan State; 8th overall pick 2000) who caught the game-winning TD in Super Bowl XLII and served 20 months in prison after a 2008 self-shooting.
Play (activity)
Play (activity): voluntary, intrinsically motivated activity done for its own sake; also called free play or unstructured play. Defined by self-direction, imagination, and non-stressed engagement; a UN-recognized child right with documented developmental benefits.
Play (airline)
Play, formally Fly Play ehf., was an Icelandic low-cost airline flying between Europe and North America via Keflavík, operating from 2021 until its collapse in 2025.
Play (Ed Sheeran album)
Play is Ed Sheeran's eighth studio album, released September 12, 2025 on Gingerbread Man/Atlantic UK. First of a new symbol-titled series after the Mathematics albums, recorded on tour and finished in Goa, India, with the singles Azizam and Sapphire featuring Arijit Singh.
Play (Moby album)
Play, Moby's fifth album (Richard Melville Hall), released May 17, 1999 on V2/Mute; 18 tracks sampling Alan Lomax blues and gospel field recordings; first album with every track licensed; sold over 12 million copies and topped the UK chart after a slow start.
Play (theatre)
A play is a written work in dramatic form meant for staging by actors, divided into acts and scenes; ancient Greece is widely considered the birthplace of theater.
Play Dead (upcoming film)
Play Dead (upcoming film): WWII survival thriller directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, written by Peter Stanley-Ward and Natalie Conway, starring Noah Jupe and Matthias Schweighöfer; shot in Melbourne, Australia in May 2025, in post-production as of April 2026; distinct from the 2022 Bailee Madison horror and Just Play Dead.
Play Dirty (1969 film)
Play Dirty (1969) is a British war film directed by André de Toth, starring Michael Caine and Nigel Davenport as officers leading a criminal patrol to destroy a Nazi fuel depot in WWII North Africa; de Toth's final film, a box-office loss later reappraised.
Play Dirty (2025 film)
Play Dirty (2025) is Shane Black's Prime Video heist film adapting Donald E. Westlake's Parker novels, starring Mark Wahlberg, LaKeith Stanfield, and Rosa Salazar; distinct from Tom DeNucci's Tubi film of the same name.
Play for Today
Play for Today: BBC1 British anthology single-drama strand, 1970-1984, successor to The Wednesday Play; over 300 plays by writers such as Dennis Potter and Mike Leigh, around 30 lost, revived on BBC Four and Channel 5.
Play Framework
Play Framework is an open-source, full-stack web application framework for Java and Scala, integrating an HTTP server, routing, and CSRF protection, and built on a stateless, reactive architecture.
PLAY HOUSE
Playhouse is a German house record label founded in 1993 in Frankfurt am Main by Heiko Schäfer (M/S/O) and Ata, central to minimal house through releases by Isolée and Villalobos.
Play It Again Sam
Play It Again Sam (PIAS) is a Belgian record-label group founded in Brussels in 1982 by Kenny Gates and Michel Lambot, owned by Universal Music Group since 2024.
Play It Again, Dick
Play It Again, Dick is a 2014 meta comedy web series, a non-canonical Veronica Mars spinoff by Rob Thomas on CW Seed, in which Ryan Hansen pitches a fake "Private Dick" spinoff with the original cast.
Play It Again, Sam
Play It Again, Sam (1972) is a Herbert Ross romantic comedy written by and starring Woody Allen, adapted from his 1969 Broadway play, with Diane Keaton and Tony Roberts; Allan Felix gets dating advice from a hallucinated Humphrey Bogart in a Casablanca parody.
Play Me (Kim Gordon album)
Play Me is a 2026 studio album by Kim Gordon, co-founder of Sonic Youth. The 12-track release blends experimental hip hop with krautrock and was produced by Justin Raisen.
Play Misty for Me
Play Misty for Me is Clint Eastwood's 1971 directorial debut, a Malpaso-Universal psychological thriller starring Eastwood, Jessica Walter, and Donna Mills about a Carmel DJ stalked by an obsessive fan.
Play Novel Silent Hill (プレイノベル サイレントヒル)
Play Novel Silent Hill (プレイノベル サイレントヒル) is a visual novel adaptation of the 1999 survival horror game Silent Hill, released by Konami for the Game Boy Advance in Japan in 2001.
Play School (Australian TV series)
Play School: ABC preschool TV series first aired 18 July 1966, adapted from the BBC original (1964-1988). Longest-running Australian children's series; windows, clock, and toys Big Ted, Jemima, Humpty.
Play That Funky Music
Play That Funky Music: 1976 funk rock single by Wild Cherry, written by Rob Parissi after Pittsburgh club crowds demanded funk from the hard rock band; Billboard Hot 100 and R&B number one.