I-sites

English

Noun

I-sites pl (normally plural, singular I-site)

1. (biochemistry) A protein folding initiation site motif consisting of an amino acid sequence pattern and a local structure type.

Usage notes

• The singular is rare and often only used attributively.

References

• Bystroff, Christopher; Baker, David (1998). "Prediction of local structure in proteins using a library of sequence-structure motifs". Journal of Molecular Biology. 281 (3): 565–77. pmid:9698570. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1998.1943.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20120328040522/http://www.bioinfo.rpi.edu/bystrc/Isites2/

Anagrams

• itises