I love "myriomer," but what's wrong with boring old "polymer?"
JPK On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Emmanuel Saridakis <esari...@chem.demokritos.gr> wrote: > Of course, "oligomer" (pure Greek) usually does that kind of job, but not in > this specific case, since oligo means few and in this case we have "endless" > chains. > I can only think of the neologism "myriomer" for this particular case, if > you want to stick to Greek. Myrioi can mean 10000 or countless, depending on > where you accent the word! > > If that catches on, remember you (probably) saw it here first! > > Cheers, > Emmanuel > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Gruene" <t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de> > To: <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 5:43 PM > Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] do you think it is interesting? > > > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> [...] >>> >>> of monomers is called a multimer, not a polymer. >> >> [...] >> shiver - what a terrible mixture of languages. 'multi-' has got latin >> origin, whereas both poly and mer have got greek origin, and I don't >> think one should mix these. Please!!! think of a different _GREEK_ >> syllable to express what you describe as 'multimer'. >> >> Cheers, >> Tim >> >> On 06/18/12 16:21, David Schuller wrote: >>> >>> Certainly it's interesting, but I think your description is >>> inaccurate. >>> >>> "Endless linear polymers" - Each monomer is a polymer, but a >>> collection of monomers is called a multimer, not a polymer. >>> >>> I don't suppose there are any knots? That would be really >>> interesting. >>> >>> On 06/18/12 09:49, anna anna wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all! I'd like your opinion about a structure I solved. Apart >>>> from protein structure itself, I think that my protein xtallized >>>> in an odd way! The biological unit is a dimer while the >>>> asymmetric unit is a tetramer (red cartoon in the figure) >>>> resulting from domain swapping between two dimers. The strange >>>> thing is that swapping connects infinite monomers and, rather >>>> than a xtal, my diffracting object seems a multilayer of endless >>>> linear polymers, a kind of papyrus with greek fret-like fibers. >>>> The figure shows the orientation of the polymers in each layer. >>>> I'd like to know if some of you have already seen a similar >>>> pattern or it is weird as I think! I'm further racking my brain >>>> to figure out a biological implication of this behaviour, I >>>> thought something like plaque formation but I can't find support >>>> in literature. >>>> >>>> All suggestions are welcome!! >>>> >>>> Cheers, Anna >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> - -- - -- >> Dr Tim Gruene >> Institut fuer anorganische Chemie >> Tammannstr. 4 >> D-37077 Goettingen >> >> GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ >> >> iD8DBQFP3z51UxlJ7aRr7hoRAqviAKDJXxXkeOE3Z0M14+RT8dznQhpD3gCcDKEP >> o034eyZnadpwyQRGXI4FV9w= >> =Q5GJ >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ******************************************* Jacob Pearson Keller Northwestern University Medical Scientist Training Program email: j-kell...@northwestern.edu *******************************************
