helices in English

noun
1
an object having a three-dimensional shape like that of a wire wound uniformly in a single layer around a cylinder or cone, as in a corkscrew or spiral staircase.
They found that DNA consists of two connected twisted strands in the shape of a helix .

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1. Long homopolymers of amino acids often form helices if soluble.

2. Proteins that contain Amphipathic helices (AHs) were suggested to mediate membrane fission via shallow insertion of these helices into the lipid

3. We have analyzed protein structures for the occurrence of 18-residue Amphipathic helices

4. Amphipathic alpha-helices play a crucial role in mediating the interaction of peptides and proteins with membranes

5. (F-Box Domain, NCI Thesaurus) The helices can be parallel or Antiparallel.

6. 14 Similar principles apply to helices: A right handed helix, moving forward, is anticlockwise and aggressive.

7. Similar principles apply to helices: A right handed helix, moving forward, is anticlockwise and aggressive.

8. Thus each double helix becomes two double helices, with the two new doublets remaining joined at the centromere.

9. The helical axes have significantly different directions in the two structures, and it is not possible to superimpose the helices.

10. Alpha-helices in proteins may have low-frequency accordion-like motion as observed by the Raman spectroscopy and analyzed via the quasi-continuum model.

11. Amphipathic helices: a brief historyThe membrane-binding Amphipathic helix (AH) is a common motif encountered in various proteins and peptides

12. 5 For helices to entwine together they must be of the same handedness,(www.Sentencedict.com) like the strands of a rope.

13. The solution structure of Bacteriocin AS-48, a 70-residue cyclic polypeptide from Enterococcus faecalis , consists of a globular arrangement of five α-helices enclosing a compact hydrophobic core

14. This gene encodes the alpha chain of type XVI collagen, a member of the FACIT collagen family (fibril-associated Collagens with interrupted helices)

15. So you can see that the fibers wrap in helices, and those fibers can reorient as the skeleton moves, which means the skeleton's flexible.

16. In the recent publication, they showed how they could generate vortex beams with many intertwined helices, using a 1 000-element ultrasound transducer array as an acoustic hologram.

17. Optical diffraction analysis yielded a lattice consisting of subunits arranged in helices of pitch-angle 27°; the unit cell dimensions were shown to be 112×56 Å.

18. Concha The helices are realistically rendered; some figurines have circular depressions in the lobes of both ears that may represent either the Concha opening or the location of an ear ornament. …

19. The Amphipathic Helix is a comprehensive volume discussing Amphipathic helices in systems as diverse as serum lipoproteins, lung surfactant, cytotoxic peptides, ion channels, mitochondrial targeting, peptide hormones, G proteins, T-cell recognition, DNA binding proteins, and antifreeze proteins.

20. While long, thin strips may be the most common, many varieties of noodles are cut into waves, helices, tubes, strings, or shells, or folded over, or cut into other shapes.

21. In this schematic diagram of a human metaphase chromosome, (1) refers to a Chromatid: one-half of the two identical double helices of the already replicated chromosome, both joined together by the centromere (2)

22. ‘When the field is turned back on, an initially parallel spin will end up Antiparallel and vice versa.’ ‘The double-stranded helices are either parallel or Antiparallel and exist in a variety of conformations of different lengths and numbers of residues per turn.’

23. Bacteriorhodopsin is a trans-membrane protein found in the cellular membrane of Halobacterium salinarium (5).The Bacteriorhodopsin is composed of seven alpha helices that arrange in a homotrimer within a hexagonal 2-D crystalline array in the membrane of H

24.  · The Amphipathic Helix is a comprehensive volume discussing Amphipathic helices in systems as diverse as serum lipoproteins, lung surfactant, cytotoxic peptides, ion channels, mitochondrial targeting, peptide hormones, G proteins, T-cell recognition, DNA binding proteins, and antifreeze proteins