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Hexamer

Hexamer

See: virion.

2. a complex or compound containing six subunits or moieties (e.g., a protein complex with six polypeptide chains or an oligopeptide with six amino acid residues). Hexamer is a reagent in molecular biology.

Origin: hexa-_ g. Meros, part


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RAPD and viruses

... a program in PERL which search in whole genome of virus places which fit to sequence of primer so in this way we found five pentamers and four hexamers. This primers theoretically do very good polymorphism in different genomes of this viruses found in genbank (NCBI). Simple but we have now ...

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by AdamAdam
Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:40 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: RAPD and viruses
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Miraculous finding: The Concordance of Ezekiel's Vision with

... movement on DNA strand and to unwind nucleic acid. The structural of helicases has been identified to assemble into multisubunit ring-shaped hexamers. In most, hexamer formation requires nucleotide binding. NTP binding stimulates hexamer formation, and hexamer formation and NTP binding are ...

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by Dongsheng Zhang
Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:48 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Miraculous finding: The Concordance of Ezekiel's Vision with
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