Molecular biology

Molecular biology

Contributors in Molecular biology

Molecular biology

Descriptive of the structure of a double-stranded polynucleotide in which one strand extends further from the end than the other to create a single-stranded 'tail'; especially the product of cleavage ...

Inclusion body

Biology; Biochemistry

An amorphous deposit in the cytoplasm of a cell; an aggregated protein appropriate to the cell but damaged, improperly folded or liganded, or a similarly inappropriately processed foreign protein, ...

Conformational hypothesis

Biology; Biochemistry

An explanation for oxidative phosphorylation that proposes that electron transport builds up a store of energy in the distorted shape of the mitochondrial inner membrane, the relaxation of which is ...

Biosensor

Biology; Biochemistry

A device, especially an electrochemical device that detects, quantitatively and in real time, the presence of an anylate or some biological event (e.g. respiration, enzymic activity, binding to an ...

Paracrine

Biology; Biochemistry

Descriptive of a secretion that acts on cells adjacent to the site of its secretion. The term is applied to the non-synaptic neurotransmitter-mediated communication between cells of the central ...

Sanger method (dideoxynucleotide sequencing)

Biology; Biochemistry

A technique for determination of the base sequence of a homogeneous polynucleotide that acts as a template in a replication system. A small amount of a specific dideoxynucleoside triphosphate is ...

Subtractive DNA cloning

Biology; Biochemistry

A difference cloning method; a technique for comparison of two closely related cell types (e.g. a cell with a deletion mutation and the normal cell), and isolation from one (the tester) of DNA that ...