What does CC stand for?

Coiled-Coil

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Trois regions structurales majeures se retrouvent dans l'amassine-1 : une courte region [beta], trois regions coiled-coil et un domaine olfactomedine.

Structural features and functional domains of amassin-1, a ...

Two alpha helices--from adjacent parts or separate parts of the same amino acid string--can wrap around each other into a so-called coiled-coil structure.

Motif for Infection

It had a novel domain organization pattern: the N terminus (residues 1-104) contained 1 calponin-homology (CH) domain, followed by only 1 region that was homologous to the filamin repeat (FR, residues 209-324), and a central region (residues 344-577) exhibiting a very high probability of coiled-coil formation, probably engaged in the observed protein dimerization.

A novel Amoeba proteus 120 kDa actin-binding protein with only 1 ...