Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation: FRM: fixed-rate mortgage: GAAP: generally accepted accounting principles: GSE: government-sponsored enterprise: HCLTV: home equity combined loan-to-value: HELOC: home equity line of credit: HFA: Housing Finance Agency: HOA: homeownersâ association: HOEPA: Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act of 1994
Hydrogen bonds, as well as the other types of noncovalent interactions, are very important in terms of the binding of a ligand to a protein. In section 1.3, we saw a 'space-filling' picture of an enzyme with its substrate bound in its active site.
Another example of a nonpolar covalent bond is the bond between two chlorine atoms because they also equally share the electrons. Nonpolar covalent bonds are very strong bonds requiring a large amount of energy to break the bond. Nonpolar covalent bonds are extremely important in biology. They form the oxygen we breathe and help make up our living cells. One kind of nonpolar covalent bond that is very important in biology is called a peptide bond.