structural motif

collocation in English

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structural
adjective
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/ˈstrʌk.tʃər.əl/us
/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ.əl/
relating to the way in which parts of a system or object ...
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motif
noun[C]
uk
/məʊˈtiːf/us
/moʊˈtiːf/
a pattern ...
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(Definition ofstructuralandmotiffrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The active compounds share a commonstructuralmotif: a protonatable amine moiety separated from an ionized sulfonate moiety by 2 or 3 methylene groups.
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Although the b-helix is a plausiblestructuralmotiffor amyloid fibrils, it has not yet been proven that bona fide b-helices occur in amyloid fibrils.
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Looking through the paper a mark could be made on it at every point where some recurringstructuralmotifappeared.
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A newstructuralmotifin the left terminal domain of large viroids identified by covariation analysis.
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This variety implies that a cofactor bound to thisstructuralmotifmay not have any significant effect on protein stability.
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Bundles of amphipathic transmembrane -helices as astructuralmotiffor ion conducting channel proteins: studies on sodium channels and acetylcholine receptors.
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When there is a large amount of information on astructuralmotif, it is easy to spot that motif with a high level of confidence.
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Both domains contain the repeatingstructuralmotifof beta sheets surrounded by alpha helices.
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The term cyclopentenone may also refer to astructuralmotifwherein the cyclopentenone moiety is a subsection of a larger molecule.
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The bromodomain is astructuralmotifcharacteristic of proteins involved in chromatin-dependent regulation of transcription.
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These chemical compounds are collectively known as retinoids, and possess thestructuralmotifof all- "trans" retinol as a common feature in their structure.
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The piperidinestructuralmotifis present in numerous natural alkaloids.
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A pair of coiled-coils - a four-helix bundle - is a very commonstructuralmotifin proteins.
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Thisstructuralmotifhas potential for high affinity binding to biogenic amine transports.
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In other words, astructuralmotifdoes not have to be associated with a sequence motif.
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These proteins usually contain the basic helix-loop-helix proteinstructuralmotif, which allows them to bind as dimers.
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In contrast, sequences in the same family align well throughout the alignment.; supersecondary structure: a term with similar meaning to astructuralmotif.
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They hypothesized that to be sweet, a compound must contain one each of two classes ofstructuralmotif, a "glucophore" and an "auxogluc".
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Furthermore, as the structure of epiregulin forms a chain in an all motif, it also forms hairpinstructuralmotif.
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The latter sub-unit is not a generalstructuralmotifin photosynthetic bacteria.
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