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acyl-enzyme

Biology; Biochemistry

An intermediate in the hydrolysis of substrates by some peptidases and esterases, e.g. by serine proteinases, in which the acyl moiety of the substrate is transiently attached to a serine hydroxy ...

In science, a key example that represents and illustrates a range of related cases; e.g. Lac as a paradigm of bacterial operons. The word is also used as a synonym for model, such as a knock-out or ...

optode

Biology; Biochemistry

A biosensor with a light-detecting sensor, e.g. a device that detects the lowering of pH due to the action of glucose oxidase at the end of a fibre optical light guide by the effect on a pH-sensitive ...

candidate

Biology; Biochemistry

A compound, metabolite or peptide, etc. with a putative role; e.g. a candidate hormone may be a natural peptide which has in vitro bioactivity, but for which its characteristics in vivo have not yet ...

liposome

Biology; Biochemistry

A synthetic micelle formed by dispersion of a polar lipid in aqueous solution in such a way that it forms into lipid-bilayer-encapsulated vesicles; useful for packaging of drugs or enzymes for ...

co-translational

Biology; Biochemistry

Descriptive of a process that occurs at the same time as protein synthesis; e.g. folding into a native conformation assisted by a molecular chaperone, transport of a secretory protein across the ...

ninhydrin reaction

Biology; Biochemistry

A colorimetric method for quantification of amino acids; reaction with ninhydrin oxidizes and decarboxylates amino acids and generates an intense blue chromophore from reduction and coupling of the ...