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Knottiness
Knottiness Knot"ti*ness, n. [From Knotty.] 1. The quality or state of being knotty or full of knots. 2. Difficulty of solution; intricacy; complication. `` Knottiness of his style.' --Hare.
Knotting
Knot Knot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Knotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Knotting.] 1. To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle. ``Knotted curls.' --Drayton. As tight as I could knot the noose. --Tennyson. 2. To unite closely; to knit together. --Bacon. 3. To entangle or perplex; to puzzle. [Obs. or R.]

Meaning of Knottin from wikipedia

- cystine knot (also known as ICK or Knottin) is a protein structural motif containing three disulfide bridges. Knottins are one of three folds in the cystine...
- delta and kappa families of conotoxins have a knottin or inhibitor cystine knot scaffold. The knottin scaffold is a very special disulfide-through-disulfide...
- inhibitor cystine knot motif (ICK motif), thus defining the whole protein as a knottin. This three-dimensional arrangement confers the protein remarkable stability...
- "Tying pest insects in knots: the deployment of spider-venom-derived knottins as bioinsecticides". Pest Manag. Sci. 75 (9): 2437–2445. doi:10.1002/ps...
- Angiogenesis with Contrast Microbubbles Conjugated to Integrin-Binding Knottin Peptides". Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 51 (3): 433–40. doi:10.2967/jnumed...
- and Alo-3. Alo-3 was the first known peptide from insects to exhibit the knottin fold. It has a higher level of activity against the fungal species Candida...
- the native-state structure due to the rarity of knots in known proteins. Knottins are small, diverse and stable proteins with important drug design potential...
- affects cell proliferation. The structure reveals an inhibitor cystine knot (knottin)-like fold, comprising three beta strands. Jouvensal, L.; Quillien, L.;...
- In 2011, Folding@home began simulations of the dynamics of the small knottin protein EETI, which can identify carcinomas in imaging scans by binding...
- Hanatoxin SCOP classification class Small proteins Fold Knottins (small inhibitors, toxins, lectins) Superfamily omega toxin-like Family Spider toxins...