Biochemistry

Biochemistry

The scientific study of the chemistry of living matter.

Contributors in Biochemistry

Biochemistry

A multi-protein structure through which other proteins may be exported across the plasma membrane (bacteria), or nascent proteins may pass from the cytosol into the endoplasmic reticulum or damaged ...

Translocator

Biology; Biochemistry

Triplet state

Biology; Biochemistry

An excited electronic state in which an electron is raised to a higher energy level and its spin is reversed, which prevents its easy collapse to the ground state. Such collapse is sometimes ...

Zymography

Biology; Biochemistry

A histological method for localization of an enzymic activity. The tissue or cell preparation overlays a gel that contains a chromophore- or fluorophore-labelled substrate, e.g. casein for a ...

Anti conformation

Biology; Biochemistry

In nucleic acid chemistry, the orientation about the glycosidic bond of a nucleoside or nucleotide that places the base away from the sugar moiety; contrasted with the syn conformation, in which the ...

Zymogram

Biology; Biochemistry

A slab gel that, after electrophoresis, has been stained to reveal the presence of an enzymic activity, e.g. a gel infused or layered with a protein substrate and subsequently treated with a stain ...

Frame-shift

Biology; Biochemistry

A mutation that throws out of register the normal reading of triplet codons during translation; usually caused by an insertion (or deletion) of one or two nucleotides into (or from) the gene.