Molecular biology

Molecular biology

Contributors in Molecular biology

Molecular biology

A method for analysis of antibody or antigen mixtures. A solution of antibodies is electrophoresed in a gel, then exposed to an antigen solution placed in a trough cut into the gel parallel to the ...

star activity

Biology; Biochemistry

A secondary nucleotide sequence specificity of an endonuclease. After the canonical specificity is established, a library of potential substrates may be created by substituting at each sequence ...

positional candidate approach

Biology; Biochemistry

A strategy for identification and cloning of a new gene; a combination of functional cloning, in which a property of the protein product (e.g. immunogenicity or liganding) is used to scan a cDNA ...

complementary

Biology; Biochemistry

In nucleic acid chemistry, descriptive of the relationship between two polynucleotides that can combine in an antiparallel double helix; the bases of each polynucleotide are in a hydrogen-bonded ...

transesterification

Biology; Biochemistry

The substitution of one alcohol for another in an ester bond, e.g. the displacement of one 3'-hydroxy group of a phosphodiester bond by the 3'-hydroxy group of another nucleotide during the ...

maturase

Biology; Biochemistry

A nuclease involved in RNA processing; it is formed by translation of a fungal mitochondrial mRNA that is produced after a first intron is excised leaving an mRNA in which the open reading frame ...

Abu shunt

Biology; Biochemistry

An alternative pathway in bacteria and higher plants for entry of glutamate into the tricarboxylic acid cycle: glutamate→γ-aminobutyrate (Abu) →succinic acid semialdehyde → succinate.