Definition of oligopeptide in English:
oligopeptide
nounˌɒlɪɡə(ʊ)ˈpɛptʌɪdˌäləɡōˈpeptīd
Biochemistry A peptide whose molecules contain a relatively small number of amino-acid residues.
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- This nonspecific binding is similar to the behavior displayed by other cationic DNA-binding ligands such as cationic oligopeptides and polyamines.
- The question arises whether the theoretical concept can be extended to analyze oligopeptides with more than two peptide groups.
- We have shown that single-molecule properties have a critical influence on the self-assembly of charged oligopeptides.
- These values can be used to estimate the total time to calculate free energies for oligopeptides of larger protein systems.
- The bounds are extracted from the set of low free energy conformers identified for oligopeptides representing these loop residue segments.
- Longer chains containing a few amino acids are often called oligopeptides or polypeptides if they contain as many as 50.
- However, this may not be the case for oligopeptides such as EAK16 because of their relatively weak intrachain interactions.
- The major computational expense for the [alpha] helix prediction stage involves the calculation of accurate solvation and ionization energies for a subset of the overall oligopeptides.
- A striking manifestation of this phenomena is the ability to grow crystalline solid-state structures from a solution of cyclic elastin-like oligopeptides by heating.
- Similar values for equilibrium constants have been reported for nonspecific binding of cationic oligopeptides to DNA.
- The multi-subunit oligopeptide ABC transporter OppABCDF could be stabilized during dehydration by the addition of 100 mg sucrose/g of lipid.
- Recently, however, several groups have studied systems of several to dozens of oligopeptides at atomic resolutions using computer simulations.
- The other three proteins studied-the lipid-anchored oligopeptide binding protein OppA, the oligopeptide translocator complex OppBCDF, and the secondary lactose transporter LacS-were found to be less stable.
- Endopeptidases play key roles in storage protein degradation, producing oligopeptides.
- The LMWCr oligopeptide is composed of cysteine, glutamate, aspartate, and glycine.
- Isolation and characterization of a group of oligopeptides related to oxidized glutathione from the root of Panax ginseng.
- These zinc-dependent endoproteases may act on a large number of substrates, or they may be highly specific, targeting only one or a few proteins or oligopeptides.
- The analysis of the free energy of these oligopeptides therefore requires efficient methods for locating not only the global minimum energy structure but also large numbers of low energy conformers.
- By analogy, biomaterials like proteins and self-assembling oligopeptides may have a critical aggregation concentration based on their amphiphilic structures.
- Aminopeptidases and oligopeptidases in the cytosol may cleave oligopeptides into free amino acids.