Molecular biology

Molecular biology

Contributors in Molecular biology

Molecular biology

An imprecise term that sometimes refers to the nature of the amino acid residues of a protein which determine its secondary and tertiary structure, and sometimes to the features of a tRNA molecule ...

Motility assay

Biology; Biochemistry

A method for detection of a molecular motor which depends upon observation of nanoscale motion; e.g. the detection of the rotary motion of a fluorophore attached via an actin arm to the γ-subunit ...

Enol

Biology; Biochemistry

The tautomeric form of a -CH 2 -CO- group; -CH=COH-. In nucleic acid chemistry, the alternative representations of the purine and pyrimidine rings as fully aromatic, with the substituent oxygens ...

Post-labelling

Biology; Biochemistry

A method for detection of DNA modification. After exposure of DNA to a xenobiotic, it is digested with nucleases and labelled with 32 P; the resulting mixture is then separated by any of several ...

Transfer vesicle

Biology; Biochemistry

A portion of the endoplasmic reticulum which encloses newly synthesised proteins, that buds off and travels to and fuses with the Golgi apparatus; also those vesicles that transfer protein from the ...

Founder effect

Biology; Biochemistry

The prominence in a population of a rare allele or haplotype due to the population's being historically isolated and having been descended from a small number individuals, among whom was one ...

Budding

Biology; Biochemistry

The process of formation of vesicles from a membrane, e.g. the formation of transfer vesicles from the endoplasmic reticulum; also the asexual propagation of a yeast cell by mitotic division of the ...