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However, such primordial di-protomeric AAA polypeptides would have to have been simpler than those present in NSF, ClpA and p97 and other AAA proteins of the current era, for the latter assemble into two-tiered hexameric assemblies, with the axis joining the two protomers in each polypeptide oriented perpendicular to the plane of the hexameric ring [ 14 ] . We cannot, at present, exclude an alternative model for midasin structure in which the hexameric AAA ring assembly is a dimeric two-layered structure formed by two midasin polypeptides arranged laterally with all six odd-numbered protomers in one layer and all six even-numbered protomers in the other.
Axial rotation was tested by mounting the specimens in the centre of the material-testing machine, so that the axis of torsion lies midway between the centre and the posterior edge of the vertebral body in the sagittal plane.
The separation on the first axis is mainly due to the base composition, that is, A+T-rich and G+C-rich codons (Figure 5d).
Both the orientation of the longitudinal axis and the spatial extent of the crush were recorded by a customized NIH Image macro.
This value ranged from 0° to 90° where 0° indicates a neurite growing in parallel with the longitudinal axis of the underlying tract and 90° indicates a neurite oriented perpendicular to the tract.