Molecular biology

Molecular biology

Contributors in Molecular biology

Molecular biology

A variety of area detector; an array of individual proportional photon detectors individually wired to a computer to allow quantification of energy and, in crystallographic experiments, its angle of ...

Contact site

Biology; Biochemistry

A small region where the mitochondrial inner and outer membranes touch, and at which structures exist that are responsible for transport of proteins and adenosine nucleotides into and out of the ...

Housecleaning enzyme

Biology; Biochemistry

An enzyme that hydrolyses or otherwise destroys a potentially mutagenic or physiologically disruptive metabolite; e.g. a nudix hydrolase, an enzyme that hydrolyzes a nucleoside diphosphatase-linked ...

Protein cage

Biology; Biochemistry

The reaction site within which inorganic materials are deposited and that can reach the supramolecular (i.e. nanometer) size, e.g. apoferritin, within which hydrated ferric oxide is deposited to form ...

Bioreactor

Biology; Biochemistry

A vessel and ancillary equipment used for the growth of cells. The bioreactor may be designed to maintain temperature and levels of oxygen and nutrients and to monitor cell density, nutrient or ...

Buffer capacity

Biology; Biochemistry

A measure of the ability of a solution to maintain its pH in the face of the addition of acid or alkali; a capacity of 1 when 1 mol of acid (or alkali) is added to 1 litre causes a pH fall (or rise) ...

RNA interference (RNAi)

Biology; Biochemistry

The phenomenon of gene silencing effected by the interaction of a double-stranded RNA, approx. 22 bp long, with the cognate genomic DNA sequence. The RNA-DNA complex is subject to hydrolysis by a ...