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The first two grooves sometimes meet at the vegetal pole, but we found no evidence in living or fixed eggs that they extend significantly beneath the yolk cell cortex.
The outer surface of the coiled-coil contains grooves into which three heptad repeat regions from the C-terminal part of the gp41 ectodomain pack, resulting in a stable six-helix bundle [ 42 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 ] . The six-helix bundle structure can be detected by specific antibodies [ 14 20 43 55 ] .
Unlike the teleostean pattern, however, the cleavage furrows continue past the blastoderm margin as grooves in the yolk cell surface.
A rifle is a `long-barreled firearm with spiral grooves [rifling] cut into the bore to impart a spin to the projectile.
These may be simple V-shaped grooves or more fancy ones such as a molding with an ogee curve.