Biochemistry

Biochemistry

The scientific study of the chemistry of living matter.

Contributors in Biochemistry

Biochemistry

A characterization of a chromosome or large portion of one by contiguous sequences, which are zones of overlap of partially characterised segments; especially used as a strategy for co-ordination of ...

Propionate rule

Biology; Biochemistry

Analogous to the acetate and isoprene rules, the observation that some natural products are assembled from multiple propionate (propionyl-CoA and methylmalonyl-CoA) units in head-to-tail ...

Cistron

Biology; Biochemistry

A segment of DNA that contains all the information necessary for the production of a single polypeptide and includes both the structural (coding) sequences and regulatory sequences (transcription ...

Exonuclease footprinting

Biology; Biochemistry

A method for identification of a protein-binding region in a double-stranded DNA fragment. One 5'-end of the DNA fragment is labelled with 32 P and the DNA-fragment-protein complex is treated with a ...

DNase footprinting

Biology; Biochemistry

Infrared spectroscopy

Biology; Biochemistry

IR spectroscopy; a technique that measures absorption of electromagnetic radiation between the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum (780‒800 nm) and the short end of the microwave spectrum ...

Zoo-fluorescence in situ hybridization (zoo-FISH)

Biology; Biochemistry

Cross-species chromosome painting; the comparative mapping of DNA sequences to specific chromosomal loci. Like zoo blotting, zoo-FISH is a method for evaluating evolutionary relationships; it is also ...