Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Cut or split easily.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being cut or divided, as by a sharp instrument; scissible.
- noun Same as
scissel .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Capable of being cut smoothly; scissible.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Readily
cut orsplit - adjective chemistry, of a bond easily broken
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The gills are also scissile, that is, they can be split, and are linear and swollen in the middle.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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The signal corresponding to the scissile +1 peptide bond could only be observed for
Naturejobs - All Jobs Silvia Frutos 2010
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Invaginations account for 2/3 of small bowel occlusion caused by up to 80% of tumors and the lipoma is the most frequent benign tumor that causes invagination in its submucous polypoid and it is in more or less scissile form.
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Then the twist of the scissile bond, together with the bending of − 1 NAG, makes the glycosidic oxygen accessible to the catalytic residue Glu315 for cleavage
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hai Li et al. 2010
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Invaginations account for 2/3 of small bowel occlusion caused by up to 80% of tumors and the lipoma is the most frequent benign tumor that causes invagination in its submucous polypoid and it is in more or less scissile form.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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We show that incorporation of this highly reactive beta-turn inducing aromatic "Eda" moiety at the scissile P1-P1′ amide bond of a prodomain peptide of human furin led to a potent furin-inhibitor with inhibition constant K
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ajoy Basak et al. 2009
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The above furin-Eda-peptide (II) contains a highly reactive β-turn inducing unnatural Eda-amino acid inserted between the scissile
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ajoy Basak et al. 2009
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Such specificity effects originating from side-chains distal from the scissile N-terminal peptide bond are, to our knowledge and up to date, unique to this aminopeptidase and have only been partially observed before as differential substrate specificity depending on the C-terminus of an unrelated series of peptides
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Irini Evnouchidou et al. 2008
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(a) Schematic representation of linear (10) and branched (11) constructs with the scissile +1 peptide bond site-specifically labeled with
Naturejobs - All Jobs Silvia Frutos 2010
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13C and 15N isotopes at both the scissile +1 amide bond (labeled b) and the amide connecting Phe194 and Val195 (labeled a).
Naturejobs - All Jobs Silvia Frutos 2010
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