Biochemistry

Biochemistry

The scientific study of the chemistry of living matter.

Contributors in Biochemistry

Biochemistry

A phenomenon in the behaviour of yeast and other organisms that rapidly change from the haploid to the diploid state. In yeast the two mating types are a and α; when two a or two α cells mate, the ...

Polyprotein

Biology; Biochemistry

A primary product of protein synthesis, a single polypeptide chain that will eventually be cleaved into several separately functional proteins; e.g. the precursor produced by retroviruses that gives ...

Isoschizomers

Biology; Biochemistry

A pair of restriction endonucleases that recognise the same palindromic sequence, although in some cases one member of a pair may differ from the other in its response to methylation of the ...

Vector

Biology; Biochemistry

An animal host and carrier of a pathogen; e.g. the flea which transmits the bacterium Pasteurella pestis; also, a DNA molecule that can be replicated in a cell and that can serve as the vehicle for ...

Shape library

Biology; Biochemistry

An assortment of oligonucleotides, often of random sequence, some of which (or some of the encoded proteins of which) can bind to secondary structures of other oligonucleotides or proteins. The ...

Mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT)

Biology; Biochemistry

The disruption of normal mitochondrial function by opening of non-specific MPT pores (MPTPs). This allows the free diffusion of small molecules and ions and if prolonged, can lead to necrosis. ...

Electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR)

Biology; Biochemistry

A technique for detection of coupling between electrons and nuclei in order to gain information about the valance electron distribution around a paramagnetic nucleus; observation of an electron spin ...