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double duplex invasion
Biology; Biochemistry
A mechanism by which a pair of pseudocomplementary protein nucleic acids (PNAs) target and inactivate DNA. The DNA strands are unwound locallly and each is targeted simultaneously by one of the PNAs.
hopanoid
Biology; Biochemistry
One of a class of pentacyclic triterpenes derived from squalene that occur in the membranes of bacteria and some plants, fulfilling the functions served by sterols in the membranes of other ...
scaffold
Biology; Biochemistry
Protein engineers use the term to refer to a domain or small protein that is the object of mutation intended to introduce or refine a property, while retaining the folding of the polypeptide ...
totipotency
Biology; Biochemistry
The capacity of a zygote to develop into a fully differentiated organism, a property lost as the zygote develops into more specialized cells that are more committed to particular lines of ...
Fenton reaction
Biology; Biochemistry
The generation of a reactive, and potentially damaging, hydroxyl radical: H 2 O 2 +Fe 2+ →OH Â +Fe 3+ OH - .
photorespiration
Biology; Biochemistry
The reaction of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase in which molecular oxygen replaces carbon dioxide as a substrate, to form 3-phosphoglycerate and phosphoglycolate rather than two 3-phosphoglycerates. ...
random peptide library
Biology; Biochemistry
For purposes of identification of polypeptides that have a high affinity for a target structure, the assortment of, e.g., the 520 to 720 penta- to hepta-peptides that may be incorporated into a phage ...
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