secondary structure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsecondaryandstructure
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secondary
adjective
uk/ˈsek.ən.dri/us/ˈsek.ən.der.i/
less important than ...
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structure
noun
uk/ˈstrʌk.tʃər/us/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in ...
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(Definition ofsecondaryandstructurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Regularsecondarystructureelements are represented in black.
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We encodedsecondarystructurein the alignment, identifying stems, loops and bulges, and manually excluded regions of ambiguous alignment from the final dataset.
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Stablesecondarystructureis present as a result of favourable solvent conditions, whilst the great majority of sidechains are disordered.
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Further characterization of the proteinsecondarystructurein purple membrane by circular dichroism and polarized infrared spectroscopies.
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Lipidinduced changes in thesecondarystructureof snake venom cardiotoxins.
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Restraints for architectural hydrogen bonds in secondary structures enhance the regularity of thesecondarystructureelements.
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Environment affects amino acid preferences forsecondarystructure.
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The first argument is that thesecondarystructuremodel is both realistic and theoretically tractable.
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Determination of proteinsecondarystructureusing factor analysis of infrared spectra.
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This peptide had nosecondarystructurein solution, but adopted a large fraction of -structure when bound to bilayers.
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In forming a protein which is compact overall, the elements ofsecondarystructuremust themselves be packed together into what is called tertiary structure.
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To form a validsecondarystructure, base pairs must satisfy several constraints.
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The result should be independent of the solvent which gives an extra criterion for the quality ofsecondarystructureprediction.
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An allowedsecondarystructureis a set of base pairs that are all compatible with each other.
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Isotopically enhanced infrared spectroscopy : a novel method for examiningsecondarystructureat specific sites in conformationally heterogeneous peptides.
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Predicting proteinsecondarystructureby a support vector machine based on a new coding scheme.
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To interpret the force-extension profiles in terms of molecular details of bond rupture and the loss ofsecondarystructurerequires subnanometer distance resolution.
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