-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [...] > of monomers is called a multimer, not a polymer. [...] shiver - what a terrible mixture of languages. 'multi-' has got latin origin, whereas both poly and mer have got greek origin, and I don't think one should mix these. Please!!! think of a different _GREEK_ syllable to express what you describe as 'multimer'.
Cheers, Tim On 06/18/12 16:21, David Schuller wrote: > Certainly it's interesting, but I think your description is > inaccurate. > > "Endless linear polymers" - Each monomer is a polymer, but a > collection of monomers is called a multimer, not a polymer. > > I don't suppose there are any knots? That would be really > interesting. > > On 06/18/12 09:49, anna anna wrote: >> Hi all! I'd like your opinion about a structure I solved. Apart >> from protein structure itself, I think that my protein xtallized >> in an odd way! The biological unit is a dimer while the >> asymmetric unit is a tetramer (red cartoon in the figure) >> resulting from domain swapping between two dimers. The strange >> thing is that swapping connects infinite monomers and, rather >> than a xtal, my diffracting object seems a multilayer of endless >> linear polymers, a kind of papyrus with greek fret-like fibers. >> The figure shows the orientation of the polymers in each layer. >> I'd like to know if some of you have already seen a similar >> pattern or it is weird as I think! I'm further racking my brain >> to figure out a biological implication of this behaviour, I >> thought something like plaque formation but I can't find support >> in literature. >> >> All suggestions are welcome!! >> >> Cheers, Anna >> >> > > - -- - -- Dr Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFP3z51UxlJ7aRr7hoRAqviAKDJXxXkeOE3Z0M14+RT8dznQhpD3gCcDKEP o034eyZnadpwyQRGXI4FV9w= =Q5GJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
