Biochemistry

Biochemistry

The scientific study of the chemistry of living matter.

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Quinoprotein

Biology; Biochemistry

A protein, usually of microbial origin, with a quinone prosthetic group: pyrroloquinoline quinone (e.g. methanol dehydrogenase), 6-hydrodopaquinone (topa quinone, e.g. amine oxidase) or ...

In microbiology, a colony of cells all descended from a single ancestral cell and therefore genetically homogeneous; in molecular biology, an exact replica of a DNA fragment; cloning is the act of ...

Single-domain antibody (dAB)

Biology; Biochemistry

The variable domain of an immunoglobulin heavy (V H ) or light (V L ) chain, each of which can have considerable affinity for an antigen; produced in bacteria by biotechnological methods, whereby the ...

Unfolded protein response (UPR)

Biology; Biochemistry

The cell's graded response to the presence of unfolded or misfolded proteins; initially, activation of the genes that support endoplasmic reticulum-associated protein degradation, then, if the system ...

Phosphoinositide cascade

Biology; Biochemistry

A series of events that is initiated extracellularly and leads via activation of phospholipase C to the liberation from membrane phospholipids of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate and diacylglycerol, ...

Potter-Elvehjem homogenizer

Biology; Biochemistry

A device used to disrupt tissues. A cylindrical glass or hard polymer pestle rotates in a close-fitting tube and a suspension of the tissue particles is subjected to shearing forces as the pestle ...

Carbohydrate

Biology; Biochemistry

One of a class of biological materials comprising sugars, polymers of sugars, and compounds related to them. The name derives from the basic sugar structure, (CH 2 O) n . The category includes ...