Biochemistry

Biochemistry

The scientific study of the chemistry of living matter.

Contributors in Biochemistry

Biochemistry

A method for quantification of the relative amount of a gene in a biological sample. One primer is constructed to hybridise with a gene known to be in the chromosome in question (e.g. chromosome 21 ...

Anomalous scattering

Biology; Biochemistry

A property of diffracted radiation that is useful in X-ray crystallographic analysis for identification of diffracting centers. The otherwise symmetrical diffraction pattern is subtly perturbed when ...

Resonance scattering

Biology; Biochemistry

Caspase

Biology; Biochemistry

Cysteinyl aspartate-specific proteinase; a member of a group of cellular cysteine endopeptidases that cleave so as to leave an C-terminal aspartate residue. The group includes interleukin-converting ...

Phytoremediation

Biology; Biochemistry

The use of plants to detoxify soil or water. Phytoremediation may involve phytoextraction, the uptake of toxic chemicals by the roots of plants and their concentration in plant tissues, ...

Exon shuffling

Biology; Biochemistry

The result of natural genetic recombination that creates a gene for a novel protein from the exons of existing proteins. The presence in introns of many sites for homologous recombination allows the ...

Patched circle PCR

Biology; Biochemistry

A method for site-directed deletion of a large-scale fragment from a cloning vector, e.g. for obtaining cDNA from a plasmid without vector sequences. Two PCR primers pair to the 5'- and 3'-flanking ...