amphipathic in a sentence
Examples
- The pharmacophore can be characterized as amphipathic, that means that the structure has both hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups.
- A biological membrane is a kind of amphipathic layer that acts as a barrier within or around a cell.
- The C-terminal amphipathic alpha helix is also the site of lacritin's only N-glycosylation site.
- Epsin has an ENTH ( epsin N-terminal homology ) domain which inserts its amphipathic alpha helix into the membrane.
- In one study, a short amphipathic peptide carrier, Pep-1, and protein complexes have proven effective for delivery.
- Membrane association depends on a pleckstrin homology domain, as well as an amphipathic alpha-helical domain in the amino terminus.
- Similar effects to melittin on H +-K +-ATPase have been found with the synthetic amphipathic polypeptide Trp-3.
- The MBD amphipathic, with the alpha1 helix and the beta sheet lying parallel and the hydrophobic faces tightly packed against each other.
- A helical wheel analysis shows that the membrane spanning alpha helices are amphipathic, with one side being polar and the other side hydrophobic.
- Glutamine 106 resides within the amphipathic alpha helix near the C-terminus responsible for binding the N-terminus of syndecan-1.