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Meanings of structure motif in English

(In a chain-like biological molecule, such as a protein or nucleic acid) supersecondary structure, which also appears in a variety of other molecules.

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Examples for "structural motif"
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The functional role of this structural motif has been demonstrated by point mutagenesis, including compensatory mutations.
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Evidence is presented to show that the structural motif responsible for the inhibition is the amphipathic alpha-helix.
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Zinc fingers are a protein structural motif that serve as DNA-binding domains in several transcriptional regulatory proteins.
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Deletion of a critical structural motif disrupts tetramer formation and results in loss of Vps74p localization and function.
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The structure reveals that the eight PUM repeats correspond to eight copies of a single, repeated structural motif.
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Usage of structure motif in English
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TGA provided single-nucleotide resolution for each binding site and delineated a highly specific sequence and structure motif for Vts1 binding.
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Using this representation, a structure motif corresponds to a labeled clique that occurs frequently among the graphs representing the protein structures.
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The pairwise distance constraints on each edge in a clique serve to limit the variation in geometry among different occurrences of a structure motif.
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Compared with contact graph representations, the number of spurious structure motifs is greatly reduced.
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RNA aptamers are structured motifs that bind to specific molecules.
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We present an efficient constrained subgraph mining algorithm to discover structure motifs in this setting.
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The HIV-1 model contains all known structured motifs and previously unknown elements, including experimentally validated pseudoknots.
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Structure motifs are amino acid packing patterns that occur frequently within a set of protein structures.
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