macromolecular
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- adjective
- /ˌmækroʊməˈlɛkjələr/
- Specialized
- Modern molecular biophysics is built on the twin pillars of genetic engineering and macromolecular structure determination.
- Macromolecular crystallography
- macromolecular structures
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Typical macromolecular structures are at 2-3 Å resolution.
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This problem is one of the remaining challenges in macromolecular crystallography.
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OK, So what about the cell and macromolecular crowding?
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As Figure 1 illustrates, this capability is already being used to follow processes of macromolecular assembly.
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Indeed, the output from macromolecular crystallographers has accelerated during the 1990s.
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Some kind of dense, long-chain macromolecular polymer.
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However, not all materials can be crystallized; membrane proteins and larger multiprotein macromolecular assemblies are particularly difficult.
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The explosive growth in structural biology itself has been the result of many important innovations in MIR, SIR, and MAD phasing of large macromolecular entities.
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Currently, biology is becoming attractive to physicists as a consequence of the wealth of new information on macromolecular structure and the flowering of techniques that make possible the manipulation of macromolecules.
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The study of macromolecular biology focuses on large molecules that play crucial roles in cellular functions.
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Etymology
Macromolecular combines macro- meaning 'large' and molecular from molecule, a word for the tiny parts that make up matter. So macromolecular describes things made of very large molecules, like proteins or DNA.