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Does the word "restraint" have any special meaning in the case of protein or biochemistry?
The following screenshot is taken from the book The Encyclopedia of Physical Science & Technology, volume: Biochemistry, Edition: 3rd, Page-197.
The text says:
FIGURE 3 Schematic representation ...
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What does the word "dynamics" mean in the context of proteins or biomolecules in general?
What does it mean by “dynamics” when we say “dynamics of protein” or “dynamics of biomolecules”? For instance, McCammon's paper has the title "Protein Dynamics" [1]. What does the word “...
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What is the difference between structure assignment and structure prediction?
I am absolutely new to structural bioinformatics (only started last week). I am working on the secondary structure assignment/prediction (actually I am not sure) of proteins using machine learning.
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What is "protein redox conformation"?
From an article by Frye et al. [1]:
Reduced glutathione (GSH) is the major intracellular redox buffer and is essential in free radical scavenging, redox homeostasis, maintenance of protein redox ...
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What does "parallel in-register" mean for a protein structure in a fibril?
I read a paper by Ross and Poirier [1, p. S12] which has the following lines (see section Commonalities of amyloid structure) that describe the structure of protein in a fibril:
The most ...
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Can a protein complex be a machine? [closed]
Discussing an article with friends we began discussing whether a protein complex that punches holes in cells (membrane attack complex) would be considered a machine.
Now, my friends are biochemistry ...
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Mono-oxidized and dioxidized tryptophan
I'm translating a Russian text in which there is the following diagram of tryptophan degradation:
Further on in the text, hydroxytryptophan is called "the mono-oxidized form" (моноокисленная ...
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Terminology: what's the difference between "monomer" and "protomer"?
Using definitions from Wikipedia, a protomer is defined as:
the structural unit of an oligomeric protein. It is the smallest unit composed of at least two different protein chains that form a larger ...
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The definition of peptide, peptide bond and protein
According to what I understand the difference between peptide and peptide bond is that peptide is two or more amino acids (up to 19 -inc.) which linked together, while the term "peptide bond" refers ...
