Phytovolatilization

Plants remove inorganic contaminants· either by contaminant volatilization or by metal accumulation.

Volatalization is useful for the removal of mercury. A bacterial mercuric ion reductase has been transferred to Arabidopsis thaliana; this transgenic plant absorbs mercury, and reduces it to volatile Hg0, which volatilizes from the leaf surface.

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                                                                  Omega loop

Beginning and end of the loop come together

The shape appears similar to Greek Capital Omega

Compact Globular structure

No regular repeating pattern of hydrogen bonds

Side chains pack into the center of the loop

Omega loops have specific functions like

Omega loop from two proteins interact with each other to form dimers

Phosphate binding loop of nucleotide proteins

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                                                             Omega loop

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                                                           Loops and Turn

Small loops with regular hydrogen bond pattern and specific dihedral angles are termed as turns

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                                                               β-turns

Most common turns, also termed as ẞ-bends, tight turns, reverse turns, generally connects

β-sheets.

The conformation of i+1 and i+2 are crucial and on the basis of this, they are classified

Consists of 4 amino acids, generally termed as i, i + 1 , i + 2 and i + 3

H-bond is seen between i and i+3 (First and Fourth residue)

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                                                                                                Type I β turn

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H bonding i-i+3, i+1 in BS while i+2 in below LHH which virtually not allowed region

for most of amino acid except Gly that is why Gly is most conserved in type II B turns

                                                                Type II β turn