Dystrophin is a rod-shaped cytoplasmic protein, and a vital part of a protein complex that connects the cytoskeleton of a muscle fiber to the surrounding extracellular matrix through the cell membrane. This complex is variously known as the costamere or the dystrophin-associated protein complex.he dystrophin gene is one of the longest human genes known, covering 2.5 megabases (0.08% of the human genome) at locus Xp21.
Bethesda is a census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, just northwest of the United States capital of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House (1820, rebuilt 1849), which in turn took its name from Jerusalem 's Pool of Bethesda.
Contributors to The Language and Communication in the Washington, D.C., Metropolitcan Area (LCDC) Project have been collecting and analyzing interviews from hundreds of Washingtonians.(L to R: Patrick Callier, Sinae Lee, Anastasia Nylund, Natalie Schilling, Jessica Grieser, Jinsok Lee, Mackenzie Price, Amelia Tseng).nd ever since D.C. became the nation's capital in 1791, its language and identity have been richly influenced by African American culture. Some people would say that Washington speech is African American speech, she says. And the most probably distinctive is some of the local words.