Molecular biology

Molecular biology

Contributors in Molecular biology

Molecular biology

A measure of the rate of sedimentation in an analytical ultracentrifuge; v/ω 2 x, where v is the rate of sedimentation, ω is the angular velocity in radians/s and x is the distance from the axis of ...

Dystrophin

Biology; Biochemistry

A rod-shaped cytoplasmic protein, and a vital part of a protein complex that connects the muscle cytoskeleton to the surrounding extracellular matrix through the cell membrane to maintain muscle ...

RNase cleavage

Biology; Biochemistry

A method for detection of single base substitutions in DNA fragments. A labelled RNA probe that spans the target DNA sequence becomes susceptible to RNase A cleavage wherever there is any mismatch in ...

Greek key

Biology; Biochemistry

A topology found in some protein structures; antiparallel β-strands are organised into a barrel in which strands that are adjacent in the primary structure are not always adjacent in super-secondary ...

Quinoprotein

Biology; Biochemistry

A protein, usually of microbial origin, with a quinone prosthetic group: pyrroloquinoline quinone (e.g. methanol dehydrogenase), 6-hydrodopaquinone (topa quinone, e.g. amine oxidase) or ...

Clone

Biology; Biochemistry

In microbiology, a colony of cells all descended from a single ancestral cell and therefore genetically homogeneous; in molecular biology, an exact replica of a DNA fragment; cloning is the act of ...

Single-domain antibody (dAB)

Biology; Biochemistry

The variable domain of an immunoglobulin heavy (V H ) or light (V L ) chain, each of which can have considerable affinity for an antigen; produced in bacteria by biotechnological methods, whereby the ...