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Examination of these structures shows that they are principally composed of large α-helical hairpins that form coiled coil structures or stretches with successive shorter α-helices.
Awful that, when Frank O'Hara died,his close friends raced to stop his familyfrom taking his unpublished manuscripts,so jimmied his apartment door, to findoblivion already settling like a coiled flailon the dirty dishes, clothes, unopened mail.
It's a bedroom voice, menacing but seductive, with over-deliberate diction that implies, "I'm so powerful, so coiled, so masculine that I have to modulate my tone--or else."
The protein sequence is predicted to contain several coiled coil regions but no other potential functional domains (figure 2).
Human and macaque cDNAs have recently appeared in the database that encompass this clone and the sequences of their encoded proteins are compared in figure 7. These polypeptides contain a predicted coiled coil region (figure 2) but do not contain other functional domains that might indicate their possible function(s).