acid residue

collocation in English

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acid
noun
uk
/ˈæs.ɪd/us
/ˈæs.ɪd/
any of various usually liquid substances that can react with and sometimes dissolve ...
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residue
noun[C usually singular]
uk
/ˈrez.ɪ.dʒuː/us
/ˈrez.ə.duː/
formal
the part that is left after the main part has gone or been taken away, or a substance that remains after a chemical process such ...
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(Definition ofacidandresiduefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The number of the aminoacidresidueis shown to the left.
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The 162 aminoacidresidueprotein has two disulphides and one sulfhydryl group.
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All members of this family share some sequence similarity and all are phosphorylated at a conserved asparticacidresidue.
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Partial agonists, which can differ from the agonist by as little as a single aminoacidresidue, can induce some of these responses but not all.
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Aminoacidresiduenumbers are according to those of bovine rhodopsin.
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A glutamicacidresidueand a histidine are involved in the catalytic mechanism.
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The 105 aminoacidresiduehuman precortistatin in turn is cleaved into cortistatin-17 and cortistatin-29.
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The other three steps mostly utilize aminoacidresidueto form hydrogen bonds with substrates.
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They were able to devise a labeling procedure which allowed them to remove enzymes of the glycoproteins' sialicacidresidue.
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It belongs to a family of cysteine proteases called caspases that cleave proteins only at an amino acid following an asparticacidresidue.
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It contains an asparticacidresiduewhich has been shown to act as a nucleophile in the catalytic mechanism.
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The heterodimer formation is based on the interaction of hydrophobic aminoacidresidueinteractions between the two proteins.
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The white phosphorus allotrope presents a significant hazard because it ignites in air and produces phosphoricacidresidue.
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The 1970s included the discovery of calmodulin-dependent protein kinases and the finding that proteins can be phosphorylated on more than one aminoacidresidue.
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The asparticacidresidueto be cleaved associates with an arginine residue in the enzyme's binding pocket.
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Just two histidine residues and one asparticacidresidueare entirely conserved.
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It is composed of 69 aminoacidresidue, which are cross-linked by five disulfide bridges.
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Ingram used electrophoresis and chromatography to show that the amino acid sequence of normal human and sickle cell anemia hemoglobins differed due to a single substituted aminoacidresidue.
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Aside from the hydrophobic hairpin, the colicins are rich in charged amino acid residues.
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