scissile

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Interestingly, no changes are observed in the proximity of the mutation site, whilst a different flexibility is detected in regions contacting the DNA scissile strand, such as the linker and the V-shaped alpha helices.

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  1. adjective Cut or split easily: a scissile mineral; a scissile peptide bond.

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  • Interestingly, no changes are observed in the proximity of the mutation site, whilst a different flexibility is detected in regions contacting the DNA scissile strand, such as the linker and the V-shaped alpha helices. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The gills are also scissile, that is, they can be split, and are linear and swollen in the middle. —  Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
  • Such specificity effects originating from side-chains distal from the scissile N-terminal peptide bond are, to our knowledge and up to date, unique to this aminopeptidase and have only been partially observed before as differential substrate specificity depending on the C-terminus of an unrelated series of peptides —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
 

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  1. French, from Latin scissilis, from scissus, past participle of scindere, to cut; see scission.

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  1. = French scissile = Italian scissile, from Latin scissilis, that may easily be split or cleft, from scindere, past participle scissus, cut, divide.
 

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