Active site
... The
active site of an enzyme is the binding site where ... The structure and chemical properties of the
active site allow the recognition and binding of the substrate .
The
active site in many enzymes can be inhibited or ...
Active transport
...
active transport is the mediated transport of ... transport of another.
Primary
Primary
active transport directly uses energy to transport ... cell potential .
Secondary
In secondary
active transport, there is no direct coupling of ATP; ...
Allostery
... scenario in which an enzyme's allosteric and
active sites are distinct.
Contents ... collides with a molecule of substrate, the
active site essentially forms a glove around its ... effector. The allosteric, or "other," site is the
active site of an adjoining protein subunit . The ...
Allostery
... scenario in which an enzyme's allosteric and
active sites are distinct.
Contents ... collides with a molecule of substrate, the
active site essentially forms a glove around its ... effector. The allosteric, or "other," site is the
active site of an adjoining protein subunit . The ...
Antibiotic
... to be due to its conversion in the host to the
active form, sulfanilimide . By today's more broad ... in producing usable quantities of the purified
active ingredient which were quickly tested on clinical ... nations. By 1984 half the people with
active tuberculosis in the United States had a ...
Barr body
... inert, but in fact a small number of genes remain
active and expressed in some species. These genes are ... RNAs , of which only two are known to play an
active role in the X inactivation process, Xist and ... Xist around the Xic . Meanwhile, on the future
active X Tsix levels are maintained; thus the levels ...
Enzyme
... sites where the substrate (s) attach, and
active site (s), where the amino acids perform the ... of an enzyme tends to consist of one or more
active sites, separated by stretches whose purpose is mainly to position the
active regions correctly. Because the precise structure ...
Cell membrane
... membranes
3.1 Passive transport
3.2
active transport
4 References
5 External ... energy, and increases entropy in a system. Unlike
active transport, this process does not involve chemical energy ( ATP ).
active transport
Typically moves molecules against ...
Osmoregulation
... Osmoregulation is the
active regulation of the osmotic pressure of body ... to their environment . It can either be
active or passive. An example are marine fish. By ... the intracellular fluid by both diffusion and
active transport. As osmotic action pushes water from ...
Cell membrane
... membranes
3.1 Passive transport
3.2
active transport
4 References
5 External ... energy, and increases entropy in a system. Unlike
active transport, this process does not involve chemical energy ( ATP ).
active transport
Typically moves molecules against ...
Rudolf Steiner
... This School, which has become increasingly
active since Steiner's day, is structured like a ... economics. This school has become increasingly
active since Steiner's day.
Architecture, ... a period after World War I, Steiner was extremely
active and well-known in Germany in part because in many ...
Thermoregulation
... the production of heat, and hence the more
active the body the greater the production of heat.
... incidence of day and night; in monkeys which are
active during the night and resting during the day, the ... work, which are discussed later. Even from very
active exercise the temperature does not rise more than ...
Carbohydrate
... supports a hydroxyl group (except for the first and last) is optically
active , allowing a number of different carbohydrates with the same basic ... form.
It should be noted that the ring form has one more optically
active carbon than the straight-chain form, and so has both an alpha and a ...
Cell growth
... for nutrient storage can have a smooth surface membrane, but metabolically
active large cells often have some sort of folding of the cell surface membrane ... division. In Wee1 mutants, there is less Wee1 activity and Cdc2 becomes
active in smaller cells, causing cell division before the yeast cells reach their ...
Competitive inhibitor
... inhibition.
In competitive inhibition , the molecule acts on the same
active site as the normal enzyme substrate . The substrate molecules cannot enter the
active site while the inhibitor is there, and inhibitors cannot enter the site ...
Diffusion
... and no additional energy has to be supplied. Compare with diffusion and
active transport.
Net flux
Net flux is used to measure diffusion.
... thermal conductivity and the temperature gradient.
See also
active transport
Barotropic vorticity equation
Bipolar junction ...
Insulin
... – that is later transformed by proteolytic action into the
active hormone.
The remaining part is called C-peptide . This polypeptide is ... None is currently close to clinical approval.
Inhaled insulin is under
active investigation as are several other, more exotic, techniques.
Dosage ...
Passive transport
... and other atomic or molecular substances, across membranes . Unlike
active transport , this process does not involve chemical energy .
Passive ... as moving solutes "down the concentration gradient" (compared with
active transport , which often moves material from area of low concentration to ...
Synapse
... The parts of synapses where neurotransmitter is released are called the
active zones . At
active zones the membranes of the two adjacent cells are held in close contact by ...
X chromosome
... chromosome in each body cell.
Identifying genes on each chromosome is an
active area of genetic research. Because researchers use different approaches to ... & Willard 2005) suggests that the Barr body may be more biologically
active that was previously supposed.
Role in disease
Numerical ...
Allele
... and "purple" alleles for petal color, the resulting offspring would have violet petals. Another exception is co-dominance , where both alleles are
active and both traits are expressed at the same time; for example, both red and white petals in the same bloom or red and white flowers on the same plant. ...
Amino acid
... Glycine
hydrophilic
75.07
6.06
2.35
9.78
Because of the two hydrogen atoms at the α carbon, glycine is not optically
active .
H
His
Histidine
basic
155.16
7.60
1.80
9.33
6.04
In even slightly acidic conditions protonation of the ...
Apoptosis
... ATP which then binds to pro-caspase-9, creating a multi-protein complex known as apoptosome. The apoptosome cleaves this pro-caspase rendering the
active form of caspase-9, which in turn activates effector caspase-3. ( See also the articles on caspases and the Bcl-2 protein family ).
The whole ...
ATPase
... is, from the side of the membrane where they are in low concentration to the side where they are in high concentration. This process is considered
active transport .
ATP synthetase
The ATP synthetase (or ATP synthase ) of mitochondria and chloroplasts is an anabolic enzyme that harnesses ...
Biomechanics
... such as elastic modulus , would be different.
Chemistry , molecular biology , and cell biology have much to offer in the way of explaining the
active and passive properties of living tissues. For example, the binding of myosin to actin is based on the biochemical reaction, where C a 2 + ...
Bone
... and their functions are to make osteoid and manufacture hormones such as prostaglandin which act on bone itself. Osteoblasts are mononucleate.
active osteoblasts are situated on the surface of osteoid seams* and communicate with each other via gap-junctions. They contain alkaline phosphatase - a ...
Cancer
... (wasting), excessive sweating ( night sweats ), anemia , and specific paraneoplastic phenomena , i.e. specific conditions that are due to an
active cancer, such as thrombosis or hormonal changes.
Every single item in the above list has a substantial differential diagnosis (it may be ...
Cell biology
... Separation of different organelles by centrifugation .
Proteins extracted from membranes by detergents and salts .
See also
active transport
Adhesion
Chloroplast
Cilia
Cytoplasm
Cytoskeleton
Endoplasmic reticulum
Flagella
Glycolysis
Golgi ...
Centromere
... See also: Genetics -- Cell biology
External links
Report about Nature Genetics article that centromere of rice genome carries
active genes
* Science . 2002 Sep 13;297(5588):1818-9.
...
Charles Darwin
... Munro III and his revulsion at the brutality of surgery at the time led him to neglect his medical studies, but in his second year he became
active in student societies for naturalists. In the Plinian society he became an avid student of Robert Edmund Grant , learning from Grant's enthusiasm for ...
Coenzyme
... coenzymes, such as heme coenzymes in catalytic hemoproteins . Coenzymes covalently or non-covalently bind to the inactive apoenzyme to form the
active holoenzyme .
...
Ion gradient
... can be used as an intermediate energy storage for heat production and flagellar rotation . Additionally it is an interconvertible form of energy in
active transport, electron potential generation, NADPH synthesis and ATP synthesis/hydrolysis.
Some archaea , most notably halobacteria , make ...
Cooperativity
... is a phenomenon in biology displayed by enzymes or receptors that have multiple binding sites .
When substrate bonds to the
active site of one enzymatic subunit, the rest of the subunits are stimulated and become active.
...
Warm-blooded
... , and insects . The advantages of endothermy are increased enzyme activity and a constant body temperature, allowing these animals to be
active in cold temperatures. On the other hand, the disadvantage is the need to maintain thermoregulation , even during inactivity, otherwise the organism ...
Ethyl alcohol
...
2 Production
3 Use
4 See also
5 External links
History
Ethanol has been known to humans since prehistory as the
active ingredient of alcoholic beverages . Its isolation as a relatively pure compound was probably achieved first by Islamic alchemists who developed ...
Evolution
... descent comes from genetic detritus such as pseudogenes , regions of DNA which are orthologous to a gene in a related organism, but are no longer
active and appear to be undergoing a steady process of degeneration [6] .
Since metabolic processes do not leave fossils, research into the evolution of ...
Facilitated diffusion
... across the membrane, where it is released. The protein then returns to its original shape, to wait for more molecules to transport.
In contrast to
active transport , facilitated diffusion does not require energy and carries molecules or ions down a concentration gradient.
...
Hardy-Weinberg principle
... , or genetic drift . Assortative mating will only change the genotype frequencies of those genes that are desired. Genetic drift is particularly
active in small population sizes . Deviations caused by selection, however, often require a significant selection coefficient in order to be detected ...
Histone
... , ubiquitination , and ADP -ribosylation. This effects their function of gene regulation (see functions).
In general, genes that are
active have less bound histone, while inactive genes are highly associated with histones during interphase . It also appears that the structure of ...
Photosynthesis
... level
Photosynthesis produces more energy for certain wavelengths of light. In plants, there are two photosystems involved, which are most
active at 700 and 680 nm . However, other wavelengths are also peaks in the action spectrum for photosynthesis.
Photosynthesis begins when light ionizes ...