Of course, "oligomer" (pure Greek) usually does that kind of job, but not in
this specific case, since oligo means few and in this case we have "endless"
chains.
I can only think of the neologism "myriomer" for this particular case, if
you want to stick to Greek. Myrioi can mean 10000 or countless, depending on
where you accent the word!
If that catches on, remember you (probably) saw it here first!
Cheers,
Emmanuel
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From: "Tim Gruene" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] do you think it is interesting?
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of monomers is called a multimer, not a polymer.
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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
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Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
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