Biochemistry

Biochemistry

The scientific study of the chemistry of living matter.

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centriole

Biology; Biochemistry

One of two cylindrical structures that appear in animal cells. During mitosis the centrioles are the poles from which the microtubules of the mitotic spindle radiate; they represent specialized ...

hetairokaryote

Biology; Biochemistry

The endosymbiotic product of a eukaryotic cell dwelling within another eukaryotic cell; as contrasted with the mitochondrion and chloroplast, which are believed to be endosymbiotic products of a ...

nitrogen cavitation

Biology; Biochemistry

A technique for disruption of cells prior to their fractionation. A suspension of cells is subjected to high nitrogen pressure, which is suddenly released so as to cause the cells to burst as ...

gene

Biology; Biochemistry

In genetics, a unit inferred from the pattern of inheritance; in molecular biology, defined narrowly as a section of DNA that is expressed as RNA or, more widely, as a coding sequence of DNA and ...

A carrier protein of the mitochondrial inner membrane that catalyzes the exchange of the amino acids glutamic acid and aspartic acid across the inner membrane. This activity is an important part of ...

multiplex fluoresence in situ hybridization (multiplex FISH)

Biology; Biochemistry

A method involving the use of several fluorophore-tagged oligonucleotides to simultaneously label metaphase chromosomes, and their discrimination and visualization through the use of narrow band ...

ataxia telangiectasia mutated

Biology; Biochemistry

Ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) is a protein kinase enzyme that phosphorylates regions of chromatin in DNA following double-stranded breaks (DSBs). Mutations in ATM cause the neurodegenerative ...