sequence motif

collocation in English

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sequence
noun
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/ˈsiː.kwəns/us
/ˈsiː.kwəns/
a series of related things or events, or the order in which they follow ...
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motif
noun[C]
uk
/məʊˈtiːf/us
/moʊˈtiːf/
a pattern ...
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(Definition ofsequenceandmotiffrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Therefore, asequencemotifmay be conserved through successive replications even if the exact backbones and base structures are not.
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These may form the core of a relaxed triggersequencemotiffor coiled-coil formation, and\\or may be required for higher orders of molecular assembly in filaments.
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Analysis of menin amino acid sequence did not reveal homologies to any other known human or mammalian protein,sequencemotif, or signal peptide.
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There is no generalsequencemotifassociated with three-helix bundles, so they can not necessarily be predicted from sequence alone.
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Coiled coils contain a highly characteristicsequencemotifknown as a heptad repeat, in which the motif repeats itself every seven residues along the sequence.
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Also, the existence of asequencemotifdoes not necessarily imply a distinctive structure.
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Thissequencemotifis also conserved in other species.
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A plethora of algorithms is also available forsequencemotifdiscovery.
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In other words, a structural motif does not have to be associated with asequencemotif.
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This cleft is lined with a number of conserved sequence motifs that are characteristic of helicases.
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Assembly of the inhibitory glycine receptor: identification of amino acid sequence motifs governing subunit stoichiometry.
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This inference is supported by the observation that sequence motifs are often found in the same positions within the second exon in different taxa.
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Shamir broadened his research to include additional aspects of bioinformatics, such as analysis of biological networks, genome rearrangements,sequencemotiffinding, and transcriptional regulation.
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For proteins, asequencemotifis distinguished from a structural motif, a motif formed by the three-dimensional arrangement of amino acids, which may not be adjacent.
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We conclude that selection is most likely to be responsible for preserving sequence motifs in the presence of abundant recombination.
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This study revealed a set of sequence motifs that disfavor nucleosome formation.
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Sequence motifs that do not include positively charged residues might also be important.
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Thornton et al. (1999) have investigated the structural implications of conserved sequence motifs.
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Such conserved sequence motifs can be used in conjunction with structural and mechanistic information to locate the catalytic active sites of enzymes.
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It represents the results of a multiple sequence alignments in which related sequences are compared to each other and similar sequence motifs are calculated.
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