Sentence examples for spans the outer from inspiring English sources
The crystal structure of TolC from Escherichia coli was recently determined to 2.1-Å resolution and shows a unique type of channel architecture: a 12-stranded β-barrel spans the outer membrane and is attached to a long α-helical channel that penetrates far into the periplasm.
The trimeric channel is composed of a 12-stranded beta sheet barrel that spans the outer membrane, and a long helical barrel that spans the periplasm.
The continental slope spans the outer margin of the continental shelf, beginning at the continental shelf break at 60 200 m and extending to a depth of 2000 m.
Our research area spans the outer coast from southern Oregon in the United States to northern BC (Fig. 1).
These proteins are thought to form a "respiratory supercomplex" that spans the outer and the inner membranes and transfers electrons from iron (or pyrite) to oxygen [ 40, 42, 43].
Would it be possible that these helices could either make a 'hairpin', which spans the outer membrane twice, or that this region would instead just 'horizontally' penetrate into the acyl-chain region of the mitochondrial outer membrane without spanning the entire bilayer?
Seven scientists whose work spanned the outer reaches of the solar system and penetrated the inner workings of brain circuits and nanotubes were named winners of the 2012 Kavli Prizes on Thursday.
Nesprins span the outer nuclear envelope and make contacts with the actin cytoskeleton network.
As dimerization of the β-barrel domain has been reported previously, it is possible that the β-barrels form an oligomeric structure spanning the outer membrane [4].
In brief, in the primary PCR, oligonucleotide primers span the outer region of msp2 (block 3) followed by separate, nested reactions with fluorescently labeled primers distinguishing the respective allelic types of msp2, FC27 and IC.
Since VLCFAs carry an hydroxyl group at the iso position and are postulated to span the outer membrane [47], they could provide a firm anchorage that contributes to explain the integrity of the outer membranes observed in the polymyxin B binding experiments [18].
