Biochemistry

Biochemistry

The scientific study of the chemistry of living matter.

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Cryptic

Biology; Biochemistry

Descriptive of a function that is not usually, or not always available or expressed; e.g. an enzyme that is separated from poteintial substrates by being located in a lysosome, a splice site in a ...

Transformation

Biology; Biochemistry

The process by which a cell line, that can normally be expected to undergo a limited number of cell divisions before death, becomes immortal; also the process by which isolated foreign DNA is ...

Imposter

Biology; Biochemistry

A gene product that can replace a missing homologous protein. Knockout experiments are sometimes misleading because a physiological function is preserved by an imposter; in such cases, a lethal ...

A proposed model for chaperone-assisted protein folding in which a chaperone, GroEL for instance, provides an environment in which a denatured protein can unfold and correctly refold, undisturbed by ...

Traffic ATPase

Biology; Biochemistry

A class of transmembrane transporters that includes the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) and transporters responsible for multidrug resistance. Transport is coupled to ATP hydrolysis ...

Layer line

Biology; Biochemistry

A feature of an X-ray diffraction pattern of a fibre. For fibres that contain aligned helices, the reflections appear as a pattern of spots arrayed in lines perpendicular to the fibre axis and the ...

Medium-chain fatty acid

Biology; Biochemistry

A fatty acid with a skeleton of 4-12 carbon atoms. Those with fewer carbon atoms are short-chain fatty acids; those with more (up to 20 carbon atoms) are long-chain fatty acids; and those with ...