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Binding Site

Pertaining to the area where an enzyme can attach itself to a compound and react with it. Binding sites are also present in antibodies, which have been genetically coded specific to a certain antigen so that the binding Site can attach to the antigen depending on its structure.


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Two questions about operon (transcription/translation)

... does happen: some policistronic prokaryotic mRNAs have a ribosome binding site (RBS) for each open reading frame. However, others do not: sometimes the last codon of ...

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by MrMistery
Sun Aug 02, 2009 11:27 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Two questions about operon (transcription/translation)
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Two questions about operon (transcription/translation)

... it gets translated, does each gene have its own translation intiation site (ribosomal binding site)? Or does it only have one (like it has one promoter). 2. rRNA (5s/16s/30s, with ...

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by farful
Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:33 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Two questions about operon (transcription/translation)
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Re: Enzymes and activation energy.

... shape of the enzyme (I assume you specifically mean its active site). It is more than just shape that is of concern here, it is the electrostatic ... electron density relative to the nuclear charge in that region lead to binding or repulsion of substrate molecule(s) and make groups more or less ...

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by jonmoulton
Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:25 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Enzymes and activation energy.
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Views: 382

Re: Flagellum Motor:Is this Scientific?

... fastest horse is also deaf? I did read one of the papers on the above site. Here is an excerpt: Journal of Bacteriology, February 2009, p. 909-921, Vol. 191, No. 3 Evolution of Penicillin-Binding Protein 2 Concentration and Cell Shape during a Long-Term Experiment with ...

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by AFJ
Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:17 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Flagellum Motor:Is this Scientific?
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Hill plot

... does seem to work however it is a graph describing multiple independent sites...what i would like to know is that in my notes I have written the ... wat we are trying to find out? also for Kn...is n just equal to the nth binding site? I reallly hope I am making sense because with my description!....help ...

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by biology_06er
Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:03 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Hill plot
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Views: 303
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