Biochemistry

Biochemistry

The scientific study of the chemistry of living matter.

Contributors in Biochemistry

Biochemistry

The reversible formation of a bond between two carbons, one of a carbonyl group and the other adjacent to a second carbonyl group; by extension, a condensation of compounds that share that kind of ...

Rocket electrophoresis

Biology; Biochemistry

A technique for identification and quantification of a material by electrophoresis into a slab of agarose gel that contains an antibody. The height of the leading edge of the area of precipitation is ...

Metabolon

Biology; Biochemistry

A proposed multienzyme complex that is responsible for metabolite channelling, so as to eliminate or minimise loss of efficiency due to the otherwise necessary diffusion of substrates to and of ...

Leloir pathway

Biology; Biochemistry

The metabolic route by which galactosyl and glucosyl units are interconverted; the transformation of galactose and ATP to glucose-1-phosphate via the galactokinase, galactose-1-phosphate ...

Mimetic

Biology; Biochemistry

A non-peptide synthetic molecule that reproduces some features of a natural peptide, e.g. it may bind strongly to an antibody by placement of the same functional groups, in the same relation to each ...

High efficiency particulate air philtre (HEPA filter)

Biology; Biochemistry

A mat of fibres, e.g. fibreglass, that is designed to block airborne particles of 0.3 Âµm or greater with an efficiency of at least 99.97%. Among their applications is the prevention of contamination ...

Affinity chromatography

Biology; Biochemistry

The separation of soluble macromolecules by use of a stationary phase that is designed to interact specifically with, and thus retard the elution of, the desired material; e.g. a hapten attached to a ...