Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking a pole or poles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no pole: in anatomy, applied to those nerve-cells which are not known to have, or are supposed not to have, any radiating process.
- In geometry, having no determinate polar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Having no radiating processes; -- applied particularly to certain nerve cells.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having no
polarity
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Examples
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Endnote 1. the hydropathic signature is technical-ese for a particular pattern of polar and apolar amino acid residues in a structure or sequence.
Axe (2004) and the evolution of enzyme function - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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The enzyme showed the tendency to preserve the hydrophobic character of the SUB, turning the side chains of the apolar residues
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Matthias Negri et al. 2010
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This immunoblot also shows the more rapid migration exhibited by latherin in SDS-PAGE than expected for its size, possibly due to its very high content of apolar amino acids and consequent more rapid migration caused by a high degree of binding by SDS detergent.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Rhona E. McDonald et al. 2009
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P-450OBT 14DM has probably a spe - cific apolar binding site for the side chain.
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The SASA-based apolar coefficient In both methods, all charges other than the ligands atoms and the atoms in the specific residue in the NAC region were turned off.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Fernando E. Herrera et al. 2008
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The cis double bond inhibits close packing of the acyl chains, whereas the straighter trans chains induce a tighter lipid packing in the interfacial polar-apolar area
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anan Yaghmur et al. 2008
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The progression of E1 to the end of the tunnel was favoured by the loop motions, the rotation of the apolar residues Phe192, Met193 and Phe226 into the SUB (
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Matthias Negri et al. 2010
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Polar compounds, such as NaEry, tend to locate in the continuous aqueous phase, while very apolar ones, such as beta-carotene and lycopene, preferentially locate inside the oil droplets, "report the researchers.
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