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Putative zinc-finger
Putative zinc-finger (InterPro IPR027383) is a protein domain classification for sequence regions resembling zinc fingers, cysteine/histidine-rich domains binding tetrahedral zinc, whose zinc-binding function is predicted but not experimentally confirmed.
Pute Investment (浦科投资)
Pute Investment (浦科投资) is a Shanghai-based private equity and venture capital firm established in 1999, describing itself as a specialist in cross-border M&A and integration investment in high-technology industries.
Putensen
Putensen, village in Salzhausen, Landkreis Harburg, Lower Saxony, Germany; site of the Gräberfelder von Putensen, a Jastorf urn cemetery (743 graves, 450 BC-50 AD) and a Lombard cremation cemetery (982 graves, 50-375 AD) with the rich warrior grave 150.
PUTERA-AMCJA
PUTERA-AMCJA was a left-wing, multiethnic political coalition formed in Malaya in February 1947, which proposed the People's Constitution and organized the All-Malaya Hartal of 1947.
Puteri Gunung Ledang
Puteri Gunung Ledang, the Princess of Mount Ledang, is a supernatural princess of Malay legend who rejects the Sultan of Melaka's marriage proposal by setting demands no mortal ruler could fulfill.
Putham Pudhu Kaalai
Putham Pudhu Kaalai (புத்தம் புதுக் காலை) is a 2020 Tamil anthology film of five lockdown-era shorts by Sudha Kongara, Gautham Menon, Suhasini Mani Ratnam, Rajiv Menon, and Karthik Subbaraj, streamed on Amazon Prime Video from 16 October 2020; a 2022 sequel, Vidiyaadhaa, followed.
Puthandu (புத்தாண்டு)
Puthandu (புத்தாண்டு), also called Varusha Pirappu, is the traditional Tamil New Year, observed on the first day of Chithirai, usually 14 April, by Tamil communities in India, Sri Lanka, and the diaspora.
Puthi
Puthi (পুঁথি; also spelled punthi) is a hand-copied Bengali book of poetic tales and religious stories, read aloud by an educated elder; as a genre it names 18th- and 19th-century Muslim Bengali verse.
Puthiya Niyamam (പുതിയ നിയമം)
Puthiya Niyamam (പുതിയ നിയമം, "The New Law") is a 2016 Malayalam thriller by A.K. Sajan starring Mammootty and Nayanthara, about a gangrape survivor's revenge with her husband's secret help; released 12 February 2016, earning about Rs 8.12 crore.
Putian
Putian (莆田市) is a prefecture-level city in central coastal Fujian, China; birthplace of Mazu, a National Historical and Cultural City, and a footwear and arts-and-crafts manufacturing hub with 3.18 million residents.
Putiliuzhi
Putiliuzhi was a South Indian-born Buddhist translator who arrived in Tang China in 693, was honored by Empress Wu Zetian, and led the Dabaoji jing translation project.
Putin khuylo!
Putin khuylo! (Путін — хуйло) is an obscene Ukrainian anti-Putin chant with a la-la-la refrain, first documented at a Kharkiv Metalist–Shakhtar ultras march on 30 March 2014, derived from a 'Surkis khuylo' football chant, spread by viral video, and revived as a hashtag after 2022.
Putin's Palace
Putin's Palace, or the Residence at Cape Idokopas, is an Italianate residence on Russia's Black Sea coast that has been the subject of public speculation regarding its ownership.
Puţinei
Puţinei (Cetatea lui Negru Vodă) is a late Roman fort in Izvoru Bârzii commune, Mehedinți County, Romania, 7 km north of Drobeta; a 100 x 40 m opus mixtum outpost blocking the Vâlcan Pass, used in the 4th century.
Putineiu
Putineiu, a commune in Teleorman County, Romania (villages Putineiu, Carlomanu, Băduleasa), on the Călmățui river; site of a 53×53 m timber-and-earth Roman Numeruskastell on the limes Transalutanus, excavated by Bogdan-Cătăniciu.
Putinism
Putinism: the political system and regime ideology of Vladimir Putin's Russia, a conservative, populist, personalistic autocracy with anti-Western, traditionalist, civilizational ideology, likely to outlive Putin himself.
Putlocker
Putlocker was a UK-launched file-hosting and free streaming site (circa 2011) for pirated movies and TV; also known via putlocker.is and Firedrive. It peaked at 1.6 million daily visits, lost its domains to court orders by 2017, and its name now marks unrelated malware-prone clones.
Putney
Putney (SW15) is a Thames-side district in Wandsworth, south-west London, known for Putney Bridge, the 1647 Putney Debates, the Boat Race start since 1845, rowing clubs, Putney Heath, and District line and Waterloo rail links.
Putney Pusher
The Putney Pusher is an unidentified jogger who pushed a woman into the path of a bus on Putney Bridge, London, in May 2017; the case remains unsolved.
Puto and puta
Puto and puta are Spanish profane insults, masculine and feminine of one lexeme, meaning prostitute, serving as denigratory adjectives, slurs, and intensifiers, first recorded in the 13th century.
Putorana Plateau (landform)
Putorana Plateau (плато Путорана), Siberian Traps basalt tableland in northern Central Siberia, ~100 km north of the Arctic Circle; 25,000+ lakes, thousands of waterfalls, Lake Khantayskoye 420 m deep, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2010.
Putorana Plateau (protected area)
Putorana Plateau protected area: Putoransky Zapovednik, a strict IUCN Ia nature reserve in northern Central Siberia, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2010 (criteria vii, ix), 1,887,251 ha, basalt canyons, 25,000 lakes, wild reindeer migration.
Putrajaya
Putrajaya is Malaysia's planned Federal Government Administrative Centre, selected in 1993 at Perang Besar and named for Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra. It became a Federal Territory in 2001; Kuala Lumpur remains the capital.
Putrefaction
Putrefaction: microbe-mediated stage of corpse decomposition, following autolysis, in which gut and environmental bacteria digest tissue, producing gases, bloating, discoloration, and venous marbling; rate depends on temperature and health, and microbial succession now supports forensic time-of-death estimation.
Putrescine
Putrescine, also called butane-1,4-diamine, is a foul-smelling four-carbon diamine produced from ornithine in living cells, a precursor of spermidine and spermine, and a monomer for nylon-4,6.
Putri Ariani
Putri Ariani (Ariani Nisma Putri, born 2005, Bangkinang, Riau) is a blind Indonesian pop singer-songwriter and pianist who won Indonesia's Got Talent 2014, earned Simon Cowell's Golden Buzzer and fourth place on America's Got Talent 2023, and released the album Evolve.
Putt Jattan De
Putt Jattan De (ਪੁੱਤ ਜੱਟਾਂ ਦੇ) is a 1983 Punjabi action drama directed by Jagjeet Gill, starring Shatrughan Sinha, Baldev Khosa, Daljeet Kaur, and Dharmendra, about a love triangle between warring families.
Putt-Putt (series)
Putt-Putt is Humongous Entertainment's children's point-and-click adventure series (1992-2002) starring a purple convertible and his dog Pep, beginning with Putt-Putt Joins the Parade on the SCUMM engine.
Putt-Putt Fun Center
Putt-Putt Fun Center is the current brand of Putt-Putt, LLC, the miniature golf franchise founded in 1954 by Don Clayton in Fayetteville, North Carolina, known for copyrighted par-2 skill courses, the PPA, and family entertainment center franchising.
Putta Mahesh Kumar
Putta Mahesh Kumar (Yadav), TDP politician and civil engineer, is the first-term Lok Sabha MP for Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, elected in 2024 with 746,351 votes (54.9%), defeating YSRCP's Karumuri Sunil Kumar by 181,857 votes; son of Putta Sudhakar Yadav.