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pseudo-first order
Biology; Biochemistry
In kinetics, descriptive of a rate that is directly dependent upon the concentration of one reactant that is experimentally varied. The rate may also be dependent upon the fixed concentrations of ...
conservative mutation
Biology; Biochemistry
Such a mutation results in an amino acid substitution that preserves an essential chemical characteristic of the original, e.g. a leucine for an isoleucine, an aspartate for a glutamate, a lysine for ...
sequence
Biology; Biochemistry
The ordered linear array of amino acid residues in a protein, of bases in a polynucleotide, or of glycosides in a complex polysaccharide; also, as a verb, to determine such a sequence, e.g. to ...
amphipathic helix
Biology; Biochemistry
A protein structure that serves in part as an interface between polar and non-polar phases; an a-helix that displays non-polar residues on one side and polar residues on the other (e.g. in many ...
hydrophobic zipping
Biology; Biochemistry
A view of the initiation of protein folding in which the formation of hydrophobic interactions between very close groups bring slightly more remote groups into interaction distance in an accelerating ...
schlieren method
Biology; Biochemistry
An optical method for detection of the non-uniform dispersion of a macromolecule in solution, especially during analytical ultracentrifugation or free-zone electrophoresis, by the refractive index of ...
RF
Biology; Biochemistry
In thin layer and paper chromatography, the ratio of the distance moved by a test sample to the distance moved by the solvent front or, in gel electrophoresis, to the distance moved by a ...
