Biochemistry

Biochemistry

The scientific study of the chemistry of living matter.

Contributors in Biochemistry

Biochemistry

The product formed by the reversible condensation of an aldehyde with an amino group in which the elements of water have been eliminated. It is featured in structures of biochemical interest, notably ...

Embryo

Biology; Biochemistry

The early developmental stages of animals and plants, from the first cell division until germination (plants), hatching (non-mammalian animals) or live birth (mammals). In humans, the term is usually ...

Palindrome

Biology; Biochemistry

A concept borrowed from linguistics; a segment of a double-stranded polynucleotide such that the order of bases, read 5'-to-3' in one strand, is the same as that in the complementary antiparallel ...

Apparent Km

Biology; Biochemistry

The Michaelis constant as observed under conditions (e.g. the presence of a competitive inhibitor) that would hinder the determination of its true value; in the case of a two-substrate enzyme, the ...

Sigmoidal

Biology; Biochemistry

S-shaped; descriptive of the appearance of a graph that shows dependence of rate on substrate concentration for a multimeric enzyme that is accelerated by binding of more than one substrate molecule; ...

Superinduction

Biology; Biochemistry

The additional increase in the rate of synthesis of a protein caused by interference with the cellular apparatus for protein or mRNA synthesis that follows an increase in transcription of the gene. ...

Multiple-copy single-strand DNA (msDNA)

Biology; Biochemistry

A satellite DNA detected in some bacteria that features an oligoribonucleotide attached by the 2'-hydroxy group of an internal guanylate residue to the 5'-end of an oligodeoxyribonucleotide, while ...