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Vesosome

Biology; Biochemistry

An aggregate of smaller particles packaged into a larger membrane-bound structure. The aggregates are formed by attachment of biotin to individual liposomes or other small particles, then ...

SNARE hypothesis

Biology; Biochemistry

A proposal for the mechanism by which membranes, particularly vesicular and Golgi or plasma membranes, fuse during, for instance intracellular transport and secretion. The two membranes contain ...

Descriptive of the interaction of two DNA strands, either single- or double-stranded, in which an oligonucleotide of one strand is twisted into a plait of helices, one around the other, and requires ...

Colour PCR

Biology; Biochemistry

A technique for screening a population for a specific point mutation that uses fluorophore-labelled PCR primers. Three primers are designed for amplification of a restriction fragment that contains ...

Sequence-tagged site (STS)

Biology; Biochemistry

A landmark in the base sequence of a genome used for placing partial sequences in correct relation to each other; especially as a strategy for co-ordination of the efforts of many laboratories in ...

Complexity

Biology; Biochemistry

In nucleic acid chemistry, a measure of the unique sequences in a DNA preparation; it increases with chain length and decreases with the extent to which the sequences are repetitive; evaluated as the ...

Hunter and Downs plot

Biology; Biochemistry

A graphical method for determination of dissociation constants of enzyme inhibitors. Where I is total inhibitor concentration and α is the ratio of inhibited to non-inhibited rates, a plot of ...