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Example sentences for: steric

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G is preferred because of close steric contacts with an adjacent β strand.
The sensitivity of the activity to relatively small structural changes in our work indicates either that amphiphilicity and steric and specific axial ligand effects significantly control binding to the virion target, or that more than one mechanism of inhibition is operational.
Apparently, other amino acids with small side chains can replace the glycines while maintaining the β-hairpin conformation of the phosphate-binding loop and avoiding steric interference with ATP binding.
For example, bases at the surface end of some in situ synthesized 60 base oligodeoxyribonucleotide probes may not be accessible for hybridization [ 12 ] while other in situ synthesized probes may require linkers for optimal performance [ 13 ] . We present evidence, using 30 base oligodeoxyribonucleotide probes, that most, if not all, of the probe is available for hybridization and that the surface does not introduce significant steric effects.
Our results confirm that the important changes are indeed associated with subunit B. We also point out that the RNA main chain passes near ThrB59, causing us to wonder whether some substitutions here create steric clashes, thus contributing to an RNA-binding defect by introducing an unfavorable contact.