underwrapping

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of underwrap

plural underwrappings

1. The act of underwrapping something.

   A threaded screw assembly inside the knob prevents either the overwrapping or underwrapping of the IABP.

   2012, C. Perret, Jean-Louis Vincent, Acute Heart Failure, →ISBN, page 377

   2 more examples

   Mechanised underwrapping and the rapid, efficient, automatic cross-tying of newspaper bundles are forging the final link of complete automation in the mailing rooms not only of many of the United Kingdom's major newspaper houses but also leading publishing houses in overseas countries.

   1967, World's Press News and Advertisers' Review - Volume 77

   In the Power Strap Inc. booth, a demonstration of bundle underwrapping and overwrapping draws rapt attention.

   1991, Presstime - Volume 13, page 24

2. A material that forms an underwrapped layer.

   How carefully done up — tissue-paper underwrapping as well !

   1901, Edmund Mitchell, Only a Nigger, page 251

   2 more examples

   An underwrapping of thin polyester urethane foam may be applied next.

   1994, The Journal of Musculoskeletal Medicine - Volume 11, page 57

   Petey loosened the underwrapping of thin paper carefully, and Sally craned her neck for a first glimpse of the flowers.

   2006, Maritta Wolff -, Night Shift, page 421

3. molecular biologyA state of being insufficiently desolvated, so that the main chain of hydrogen bonds in a protein are too accessible, rendering the protein unstable.

   However, protein underwrapping is only one cause of dosage effects.

   2011, Katharina Dittmar, David Liberles, Evolution after Gene Duplication, →ISBN

   2 more examples

   Crystal structures from PDB were analyzed totest whether duplicability of a geneis affected by its underwrapping (Liang et al., 2008).

   2011 -, Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology, →ISBN

   Cross-examination of genetic and structural information revealed that the underwrapping or packing deficiency of a protein, ν, is a molecular quantifier of dosage sensitivity [5] precisely because it constitutes a measure of the reliance of the protein on binding partnerships to maintain the integrity of the native fold.

   2015, Ariel Fernández Stigliano, Biomolecular Interfaces: Interactions, Functions and Drug Design, →ISBN