Biochemistry

Biochemistry

The scientific study of the chemistry of living matter.

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Biochemistry

A representation of the absolute configuration of an asymmetrical carbon atom, especially the carbons of a sugar, in which the substituents further from the observer are shown above and below and the ...

alpha (α)-isomer

Biology; Biochemistry

In sugar chemistry, the anomer that places the hemiacetal (or hemiketal) hydroxy group on the side of the pyranose (or furanose) ring opposite the non-ring carbon atom (i.e. C-6 of glucose) that is ...

HLH protein

Biology; Biochemistry

One of a group of proteins defined by their characteristic topography (the helix-loop-helix). These proteins form DNA-binding heterodimers composed of two proteins, one from a ubiquitous and one from ...

bZIP protein

Biology; Biochemistry

A type of Y-shaped homodimeric DNA-binding protein in which the stem is composed of two intertwined α-helices held together as a leucine zipper; the arms of the Y are the basic regions that reach ...

hemiketal

Biology; Biochemistry

The product of reversible condensation of a ketone and an alcohol in which the alcoholic hydroxy group adds across the carbonyl group of the ketone, e.g. fructose acting as both a ketone and an ...

hemiacetal

Biology; Biochemistry

The product of reversible condensation of an aldehyde and an alcohol in which the alcoholic hydroxy group adds across the carbonyl group of the aldehyde, e.g. glucose acting as both an aldehyde and ...

heterogenous

Biology; Biochemistry

Descriptive of a phenotype which is expressed by two or more genotypes, in contrast with polygeneous, which is descriptive of a phenotype which requires several genes together for its expression.