Biochemistry

Biochemistry

The scientific study of the chemistry of living matter.

Contributors in Biochemistry

Biochemistry

The structure at the end of a eukaryotic chromosome formed by the DNA strand of the chromosome being extended by the enzyme telomerase, which is present in germ-line and cancer cells, and which adds ...

Xenoduplex analysis

Biology; Biochemistry

A method of comparative gene mapping, in which PCR fragments from a species in which the gene sequence is known, forms an interspecies hybrid, a xenoduplex, with a PCR fragment from a species in ...

Eukaryote

Biology; Biochemistry

Common name of a member of the Eucarya, one of the three domains of living organisms that are classified according to rRNA sequence homologies; they are further characterised by cells containing ...

Molecular accordion

Biology; Biochemistry

A reporter molecule; a fluorophore-labelled linear polymer that interacts with natural and synthetic phospholipid membranes, and whose fluorophores respond to the polymer ' s physical environment. ...

Enzyme mechanism

Biology; Biochemistry

An elaborate system of nomenclature has been proposed to describe, from the perspective of kinetics, the variety of enzyme mechanisms. Uni, Bi, Ter and Quad refer to the number of substrates or ...

Two-hybrid system

Biology; Biochemistry

An assay for detecting in vivo protein-protein interactions, which depends upon expression of a reporter gene, usually in yeast. As transcription of eukaryotic enzymes are regulated by ...

Framework model

Biology; Biochemistry

A proposed sequence of protein folding events in which the random coil, or denatured form, passes through three stages: the formation of fluctuating embyros, in which disconnected regions of ...