Sentences with phrase «with hydrophobic amino acids»

The narrow selectivity filter is only 12 angstroms long, whereas the remainder of the pore is wider and lined with hydrophobic amino acids.

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The protein structure of the hard keratins such as wool is predominately hydrophobic amino acids coupled with a high lipid percentage lending a waterproof characteristic to the wool fiber.

The C - terminal end of the cytoplasmic tail of gp41, measuring 105 amino acid residues, was tightly associated to the membrane and had three alpha - helixes with portions that were hydrophobic and portions that were hydrophilic.

Here, we use resurrected Precambrian proteins as scaffolds for protein engineering and demonstrate that a new active site can be generated through a single hydrophobic - to - ionizable amino acid replacement that generates a partially buried group with perturbed physico - chemical properties.

Both cysteine and methionine are nonpolar as well as hydrophobic, with methionine being extremely hydrophobic as far as amino acids go.