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coenzyme M

Biology; Biochemistry

2-Mercaptoethane sulfonate; first identified as a 1-carbon carrier in the reduction of CO 2 to methane in Archaea. More recently, CoM has also been shown to play a role in bacterial alkene ...

charge accumulator model

Biology; Biochemistry

A conceptualization of the mechanism of the water-splitting enzyme of photosynthesis in which four electrons are sequentially removed from the manganese center, enabling it to oxidize water to ...

contact site

Biology; Biochemistry

A small region where the mitochondrial inner and outer membranes touch, and at which structures exist that are responsible for transport of proteins and adenosine nucleotides into and out of the ...

An enzyme that hydrolyses or otherwise destroys a potentially mutagenic or physiologically disruptive metabolite; e.g. a nudix hydrolase, an enzyme that hydrolyzes a nucleoside diphosphatase-linked ...

protein cage

Biology; Biochemistry

The reaction site within which inorganic materials are deposited and that can reach the supramolecular (i.e. nanometer) size, e.g. apoferritin, within which hydrated ferric oxide is deposited to form ...

multiwire data collector

Biology; Biochemistry

A variety of area detector; an array of individual proportional photon detectors individually wired to a computer to allow quantification of energy and, in crystallographic experiments, its angle of ...

bioreactor

Biology; Biochemistry

A vessel and ancillary equipment used for the growth of cells. The bioreactor may be designed to maintain temperature and levels of oxygen and nutrients and to monitor cell density, nutrient or ...