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nitrogen balance

Biology; Biochemistry

The quantitative difference between the intake of all nitrogenous products in the diet and the excretion of all nitrogenous products (both expressed in terms of g of nitrogen); positive nitrogen ...

A secondary structure of proteins in which the polypeptide backbone turns sharply on itself in as few as three residues, and is stabilized by hydrogen bonds between the amide hydrogens and carbonyl ...

glycoform

Biology; Biochemistry

One of several variants of a glycoprotein that have identical polypeptide moieties but differ in the site of glycosylation (site heterogeneity) and/or the nature of the oligosaccharide moiety. ...

procollagen suicide

Biology; Biochemistry

The magnified effect of a mutation in the propeptide of one collagen precursor molecule on the structure of secreted collagen. The phenomenon results from the disruption of fibril assembly when a ...

chair form

Biology; Biochemistry

A conformation of a six-membered non-aromatic ring that places all opposing centers away from each other, as contrasted with the boat form, which places two of the opposing centers towards each ...

isoschizomers

Biology; Biochemistry

A pair of restriction endonucleases that recognize the same palindromic sequence, although in some cases one member of a pair may differ from the other in its response to methylation of the ...

polyprotein

Biology; Biochemistry

A primary product of protein synthesis, a single polypeptide chain that will eventually be cleaved into several separately functional proteins; e.g. the precursor produced by retroviruses that gives ...