0 a device consisting of two rows of metal or plastic teeth-like parts that are brought together by pulling a small sliding piece over them, used for closing openings in clothing, bags, etc.:
1 a device for fastening together an opening in clothes, bags, etc., and consisting of two rows of little metal or plastic parts that can be locked together by sliding another part over them
The net result is that for our loads, zippering is not limiting per formance.
Even near the cathode, the model is consistent with the low level, late emission seen in the zipper data.
A signalling cascade triggers actin assembly, leading to the formation of cell-surface extensions that engulf the anibody-coated pathogen by ' zippering up ' around it.
Probing the folding mechanism of a leucine zipper peptide by stopped-flow circular dichroism.
Finally, the zipper data show that even good pinches show significant variations with axial distance.
Having established some confidence in the per formance of the zipper array, we turn to a review of its results.
It is in principle also possible to have transient initiation of -sheet structure in the form of short, flickering zippers.
Going up and down in the structure is analogous to closing and opening a zipper in a piece of clothing, whence the name.
