HYDROGEN BOND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydrogen bond mean? 

• HYDROGEN BOND (noun)
  The noun HYDROGEN BOND has 1 sense:

1. a chemical bond consisting of a hydrogen atom between two electronegative atoms (e.g., oxygen or nitrogen) with one side be a covalent bond and the other being an ionic bond

  Familiarity information: HYDROGEN BOND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDROGEN BOND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A chemical bond consisting of a hydrogen atom between two electronegative atoms (e.g., oxygen or nitrogen) with one side be a covalent bond and the other being an ionic bond

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("hydrogen bond" is a kind of...):

bond; chemical bond (an electrical force linking atoms)

 Context examples 

G-quadruplexes are multi-stranded structures held together by square planes of four guanines ('G-quartets') interacting by forming Hoogsteen hydrogen bonds.

(G-Quartets, NCI Thesaurus)

A third-generation, supramolecular platinum-based compound composed of carboplatin linked, by a strong hydrogen bond, to 1,1-cyclobutane dicarboxylate (CBDCA), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Dicycloplatin, NCI Thesaurus)

Tetranucleotide recognition is supported by an aliphatic alpha-helix/beta-sheet RNA-binding platform that mimics UG by making Watson-Crick-like hydrogen bonds with CA.

(Neuro-Oncological Ventral Antigen 2, NCI Thesaurus)

This term does not apply to the disruption of hydrogen bonds that stabilize DNA and RNA molecules.

(Nucleic Acid Cleavage, NCI Thesaurus)

Kringle domains are characterised by a triple loop, 3-disulphide bridge structure, whose conformation is defined by a number of hydrogen bonds and small pieces of anti-parallel beta-sheet.

(Kringle Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

Natural products containing carbon-phosphorous bonds, so-called C-P compounds, are derivatives of phosphonate and phosphinate with substitution of alkyl group for hydrogen of phosphorus-hydrogen bonds.

(Aminophosphonate Metabolism Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

In a b-sheet two or more polypeptide chains run alongside each other and are linked in a regular manner by hydrogen bonds between the main chain C=O and N-H groups.

(Beta Sheet, NCI Thesaurus)

These mappings require the highest possible resolutions so that the shape of the protein chain can be traced and the hydrogen bonds between the protein and the small molecules it interacts with can be discerned.

(Near-atomic resolution of protein structure by electron microscopy holds promise for drug discovery, NIH)