Biochemistry

Biochemistry

The scientific study of the chemistry of living matter.

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Chromosomal map

Biology; Biochemistry

The localization of genetic traits to regions of chromosomes, by linkage studies (e.g. the association of haemophilia with the X chromosome) and by in situ hybridization to fluorescent probes.

Hemidesmosome

Biology; Biochemistry

A structure of the plasma membrane of an epithelial cell that extends into both the cytoplasm and the extracellular space, and anchors the cell to the extracellular matrix of the basal lamina.

Double duplex invasion

Biology; Biochemistry

A mechanism by which a pair of pseudocomplementary protein nucleic acids (PNAs) target and inactivate DNA. The DNA strands are unwound locallly and each is targeted simultaneously by one of the PNAs.

The reaction of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase in which molecular oxygen replaces carbon dioxide as a substrate, to form 3-phosphoglycerate and phosphoglycolate rather than two 3-phosphoglycerates. ...

Walden inversion

Biology; Biochemistry

A change of the configuration at an asymmetrical carbon atom due to the entry from one side of the centre of an attacking group, simultaneously with the departure from the other side of a leaving ...

Scaffold

Biology; Biochemistry

Protein engineers use the term to refer to a domain or small protein that is the object of mutation intended to introduce or refine a property, while retaining the folding of the polypeptide ...

Hopanoid

Biology; Biochemistry

One of a class of pentacyclic triterpenes derived from squalene that occur in the membranes of bacteria and some plants, fulfilling the functions served by sterols in the membranes of other ...