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Changing a size 400 system to a size 50 system, for example, effectively speeds-up the decay into a plane wave state but otherwise leaves the period unchanged. Likewise, although patterns starting from two different initial states consisting of either 10 or 20 randomly positioned nonzero sites typically have different appearances, the periodicity of the resulting global structures is exactly the same. 

B. The Fa/Fb-Binding Subunit of RCI-Type Photosystems 1. Global Structure and Differences between Species... 

Modulation of DNA structure and dynamics is also possible using base-pair mismatches. Mismatches exert little influence on the global structure of B-DNA duplexes. Locally, the extent of base stacking perturbation depends sensitively on the nature of the mismatch [139-141]. Therefore, while a CA mismatch introduces a significant distortion in local stacking, the well-stacked GA mismatch is, by many criteria, barely perceptible. The dynamics of mismatched base-pairs may also be significantly distinct from matched Watson-Crick base pairs [9]. We exploit these features of DNA mismatches to probe the sensitivity of DNA-mediated CT to base structure and dynamics. 

Shortle has focused on the unfolded state for more than a decade, leading up to his recent demonstration using residual dipolar couplings that staphylococcal nuclease retains global structure in 8 M urea. His chapter on The Expanded Denatured State sets the stage. Dunker etal. then explore the complementary world of disordered regions within... 

Hydrophobic interactions, on the other hand, are strong, indifferent to local details, and are relatively long range. If transient direct or water-separated contacts occur between nonpolar side chains, the net effect could be local organization and an overall compaction of the polypeptide chain. Whereas the strengths of hydrophobic interactions must be considerably reduced in 8 M urea, they clearly are not eliminated, as evidenced by the persistence of lipid bicelles. Thus hydrophobic interactions probably play some role in persistent global structure, the importance of which can be tested by replacing multiple hydrophobic side chains with similarly shaped polar ones. 

Polyclonal antibodies are obtained directly from the serum of the immunized animals (sometimes a purification step is carried out before their use). A family of clones is obtained that recognize the global structure of the hapten immunized, exhibiting each clone to a specific binding to different epitopes in the molecule. Therefore, the affinity of a PAb will be a combination of the... 

Fig. 5. The effect of protein-protein interactions on Nephila edulis major ampullate circular dichroism spectra in solution. A change in secondary structure with increasing concentration is observed. At low concentration (minimal protein-protein interactions) silk proteins appear partially unfolded in solution. At higher concentration (higher protein-protein interactions) silk proteins refold into a helix-like structure, most likely a molten-like globule (from Dicko et al., 2004c). This final molten structure would facilitate local chain rearrangement while preserving the global structure for protein storage and transport. (Copyright 2004 American Chemical Society.)...

H. Ma and A. P. Zeng, Reconstruction of metabolic networks from genome data and analysis of their global structure for various organisms. Bioinformatics 19(2), 270 277 (2003). 

Fig.1. Regular star macromolecules with/=3,4, and 8 arms of identical length. The arms or rays can consist of rather stiff chains, but are in most cases flexible chains. The global structure is determined by the overall shape of the whole macromolecule the internal structure is indicated by a domain that is much smaller than the overall dimension but still larger than a few Kuhn segments...

Quality system provides a global structure and coordination to implement manufacturing policies and procedures in a methodical and controlled manner. It also enables deviations and problems to be addressed in timely ways and reduces recurrence. Trained personnel are necessary to execute manufacturing and test activities by following established procedures and to ensure compliance with GMP and that products are... 

The three-dimensional structural architecture of plant defensins is exemplified by the structure of Rs-AFP, ° which comprises an N-terminal /3-strand followed by an ct-helix and two /3-strands (/3a/3/3 configuration). The /3-strands form a triple-stranded antiparallel /3-sheet. The three-dimensional structure is stabilized by three disulfide bonds. In general, in plant defensins two disulfide bonds form between the ct-helix and the central /3-strand. A third disulfide bond stabilizes the structure by linking the /3-strand after the helix to the coiled part after the ct-helix. This motif is called the cysteine-stabilized a/3-motif (CSa/3)" and also occurs in toxins isolated from insects, spiders, and scorpions.The fourth disulfide bond links the C-terminal end of the peptide with the N-terminal /3-strand. Two plant defensins, PhDl and PhD2, feature a fifth disulfide bond and have been proposed to be the prototypes of a new subclass within plant defensins." As a result of these structural features the global structure of plant defensins is notably different from o //3-thionins, which is one of the reasons for the different nomenclature. The structures of plant defensins Rs-AFP ° and NaDf are shown in Figure 6, where they are compared to the thionin /3-purothionin and the structurally more related drosomycin and charybdotoxin. ... 

Figure 10 The global structures of Bowman-Birk inhibitors are diverse, but the reactive sites are structurally highly conserved. Reactive sites are oriented to the bottom right corner. The double-stranded /3-sheets neighboring the reactive sites are clearly visible, (a) 1 mvz, (b) 1 bbi, and (c) 1 h34. (d) The overlay of the backbone traces of the three BBIs ((a)-(c), colors as before) reveals their structural similarity. Additionally SFTI-1 (green, Ijbl) adopts the same fold in its active site. The residues (Arg in 1 mvz, Lys for other peptides) are also shown N and C denote the N- and C-termini of the truncated loops.

The global structure of Potll inhibitors is stabilized by disulfide bridges. The N-terminus features a coiled structure followed by two antiparallel /3-strands connected with a turn motif The second /3-strand is linked to the N-terminal region via a disulfide bond. After the second /3-strand the structure adopts an extended coiled loop that is attached to the N-terminal part through two disulfide bonds. This loop also contains the reactive site, which is positioned between the two disulfide bridges. The structure continues with a third /3-strand... 

Fig. 6. Global structural characterization of mPrP(23-231). Dots represent the 98 residues of the N-terminal segment 23-120, which shows features of a flexible, random coil-like polypeptide with rotational correlation times for the groups of Tc

The aggregation of the nanomagnets has two different consequences on the proton relaxation properties on one hand, those related to the global structure of the cluster and to the magnetic field distribution around them and, on the other hand, those limited to the inner part of the aggregate (75). While the global effect dominantly affects i 2> the inner one influences R. ... 

The folding pathway of the ribozyme-substrate complex upon addition of metal ions is also well studied. Bassi et al. analyzed the global structure of... 

Although these moduli spaces are in a sense the most basic moduli spaces of abelian varieties not much seems to be known about their local and global structure. In [Mu] the components of Agtd are determined using the spaces Agj parametrizing the polarized abelian varieties with a fixed sequence of "elementary divisors 6 = ( 1 ..., S9) of positive integers 1 2 g such that UU = d associated to the polarization. In [Cr] the local structure of Ag%d at a point of A9 s is determined. Finally, in [NO] the stratification by p-rank Vo C Vi C. .. C V5 i C Vg = = A9id 0 Fp is studied it is shown there that the dimension of Vg-i is equal to g(g -f 1) — i ([NO] Theorem 4.1). 

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