turnover rate the rate at which members of a
population or
community replace themselves
turpentine A solvent that includes two terpenes--camphor and pinene.
tusk
shells Molluscs that have an elongate, tapered
shell that is open at both ends.
Full article >>>Turnover: The balance between synthesis and degradation of a product.
Universal
Genetic Code: The "standard"
codon usage that is common to most
organisms.
Untranslated RNA: See Nontranslated
RNA.
Full article >>>Purines from
turnover of
nucleic acids (or from food) can also be salvaged and reused in new
nucleotides.
Full article >>>Pericellular
proteolysis represents one of the key modes by which the
cell can modulate its
environment, involving not only
turnover of the extracellular matrix but also the regulation of
cell membrane proteins, ...
Full article >>>The quantity kcat, also called the
turnover number, incorporates the rate constants for all steps in the re
action, and is the quotient of Vmax and the total
enzyme concentration.
Full article >>>: The genetically programmed death of
cells at specific times during
embryonic
morphogenesis and development, metamorphosis, and during
cell turnover in adults including the maturation of T and B
cells of the
immune system.
Full article >>>Through processes of paralogous
recombination, these same regions are targets for rapid
evolutionary
turnover among the
genomes of closely related primates.
Full article >>>metabolism: the rapid
turnover of chemical materials; involves the release or use of chemical energy.
metaphase: the stage during
mitosis in which the pairs of
chromatids line up on the equatorial plate.
Full article >>>destruction of "bad" m
RNAs (e.g., those with premature
STOP codons [see Non
sense-Mediated m
RNA Decay (NMD)];
turnover of m
RNAs thus increasing the flexibility of
gene expression in the
cell.
Exosomes ...
Full article >>>Post-
transcriptional regulation
Regulation of
gene expression after the
gene has been
transcribed into m
RNA. For example, by regulation of
translation, regulation of
protein activity, or regulation of
protein turnover.
Full article >>>We know that the
receptors, the
proteins themselves that are modified, only last a few days, so they will actually
turnover--that is, they will be broken down, degraded, and new ones will replace those
receptors.
Full article >>>For example, lutropin (LH) produced by the anterior pituitary stimulates production of progesteron by the
corpus luteum.
turnover number The number of times an
enzyme molecule transforms a
substrate molecule per sec, ...
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