Molecular biology

Molecular biology

Contributors in Molecular biology

Molecular biology

A graphical method for determination of the type of enzyme inhibition and the dissociation constant (K i ) for an enzyme-inhibitor complex. The effect on the enzymic rate (v) is determined at two or ...

Easson and Stedman plot

Biology; Biochemistry

A graphical method for determination of enzyme-inhibitor dissociation constants for non-competitive inhibitors, especially those that bind very tightly. Where I is the total inhibitor concentration, ...

Mucopolysaccharide

Biology; Biochemistry

A complex composed of glycosaminoglycans that radiate from a protein core in a bottlebrush-like structure. There are two major types of membrane proteoglycans: glypicans, which are anchored to the ...

Proteoglycan

Biology; Biochemistry

Hypervariable region

Biology; Biochemistry

A localised sequence of a variable region of an immunoglobulin that shows a particularly large variation in amino acid sequence compared with all other immunoglobulins; presumably the part of the ...

Code blocker (antisense drug)

Biology; Biochemistry

In an attempt to develop specific therapies, free of side-effects, an antisense oligonucleotide or analogue that is designed to form a double-stranded complex with an mRNA produced by a virus or ...

Beer's law

Biology; Biochemistry

A quantitative treatment of the absorption of monochromatic light by a solution. The equation A=log(I 0 /I) defines A (the absorbance, which is proportional to the concentration of the ...