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palindrome

Biology; Biochemistry

A concept borrowed from linguistics; a segment of a double-stranded polynucleotide such that the order of bases, read 5'-to-3' in one strand, is the same as that in the complementary antiparallel ...

A value for the molecular mass of a macromolecule calculated from its content of a metal ion, end group or other feature present in an unknown stoichiometric ratio, e.g. the minimal molecular mass of ...

embryo

Biology; Biochemistry

The early developmental stages of animals and plants, from the first cell division until germination (plants), hatching (non-mammalian animals) or live birth (mammals). In humans, the term is usually ...

Schiff base

Biology; Biochemistry

The product formed by the reversible condensation of an aldehyde with an amino group in which the elements of water have been eliminated. It is featured in structures of biochemical interest, notably ...

superinduction

Biology; Biochemistry

The additional increase in the rate of synthesis of a protein caused by interference with the cellular apparatus for protein or mRNA synthesis that follows an increase in transcription of the gene. ...

nuclear scaffold

Biology; Biochemistry

The network of protein fibres that underlies the nuclear inner membrane and is exposed upon extraction of soluble proteins from the nucleus. Between mitoses (interphase), chromatin is attached to the ...

side chain

Biology; Biochemistry

The moiety of an amino acid residue in a protein, or of a free amino acid, that is attached to the α-carbon and is unique to each amino acid, e.g. the isopropyl group of valine, the benzyl group of ...