Like a man writing his own obituary Dmitri Shostakovich composed his String Quartet No. 8 as a requiem for himself, weaving it together with an autobiographical motif consisting of the letters D-S-C-H.
Microsatellites [7] are portions of non-coding DNA with a variable number of repetitions of a motif consisting of a few bases.
Multiple sequence analysis of the identified peptides indicated a motif consisting of proline and neighboring hydrophobic residues that could restrict proteolytic processing.
A series of HIV-1 integrase inhibitors containing a novel metal binding motif consisting of the 8-hydroxy-1,6-naphthyridine core and either an oxadiazole or triazole has been identified.
The monomeric units are strongly linked to each other by a quadruple hydrogen bonding motif consisting of four C-H...O hydrogen bonding interactions (inbetween the hydrogens of the thiophene ring and oxygen from the bidentate-chelating coordinated carboxyl) (Table 2, Figure 3).
A unique structural motif consisting of B54 B64 was found in Face B, which adopts a special sequence, NL P NI C NI P NI, featuring four [Asn-Leu/Ile] units connected by three conformational-constrained residues, thus is called the [NL/I] tetralet motif.
In addition to the IQSPHFF peptide, a second although less prevalent (20%; 6/30) motif consisting of HHS/HHXH was also identified through the selection (Fig. 2B).
As previously described [23], [24], the DID domain is composed of a series of armadillo repeats, a structural motif consisting of a repeating series of three helices arranged in a superhelical coil.
First is a compact tertiary structural motif consisting of five beta-sheets and a single alpha helix, termed the ubiquitin fold, in addition to a low complexity C-terminus available for activation and conjugation.
Clade 1 proteins, which cluster away from other DUF23 proteins with a 63% bootstrap value, have a common motif consisting of approximately 10 amino acids directly N-terminal to the DUF23 domain.
Indeed, fetuin-A possesses a motif consisting of a cystatin-like domain with several basic amino acids which has been shown to interact with calcium phosphate and apatite crystals [66], [94].
