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Dictionary » M » Moiety MoietyDefinition noun, plural: moieties (general) A half or one of two approximately equal parts of something; an indefinite portion or part or share of the whole. (chemistry) A half of a molecule; a significant segment, portion or part of a molecule that may include a substructure of the functional group. (anthropology) One of the two descent groups from an equally divided society; each of the primary subdivisions of kin-related groups of a particular society.
In chemistry, a moiety is originally defined as half of a molecule. For example, benzyl acetate has an acetyl moiety and benzyl alcohol moiety. Recently, moiety is used synonymously for functional group, which may be erroneous. In the example above, each moiety of benzyl acetate contains a portion of the functional group. Hence, to use moiety to mean a functional group is, therefore, inaccurate in this case. Moiety is originally a common term in anthropology and archeology to mean the half of a tribal family. An encounter between Elizabeth Bollwerk, an archeology graduate student, and a drug research scientist led to the term's crossover.
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Results from our forumKrebs Cycle questionThe "high energy" thioester linkage makes it an excellent donor of the acetate moiety. ACTIVATION OF ACETATE??
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Re: how to knock out a gene?... of attached to a Morpholino oligo. After demonstrating successful delivery in cell cultures and in animals, this was named the Vivo-Porter moiety and offered commercially as a modification of Morpholinos: Li YF, Morcos PA. Design and Synthesis of Dendritic Molecular Transporter that Achieves ...
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Glycolysis + Glycogen... the step catalyzed by glycogen phosphorylase, there is a second enzyme involved (I'll let you find that on one your own) and then the resulting moiety enters glycolysis... and it's going to be up to you to figure out at which step, but it shouldn't be too hard. With the above information, you ...
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The Fiber Disease... type 1 and 2A. Synthesized nonribosomally, the microcystins contain a number of unusual amino acid residues including the beta-amino polyketide moiety Adda (3-amino-9-methoxy-2,6, 8-trimethyl-10-phenyl-4,6-decadienoic acid). We have characterized the microcystin biosynthetic gene cluster from ...
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The Fiber Disease... been realized by using the fol- lowing strategies. In adapter-mediated targeting, the tropism of the virus is modified by an extraneous targeting moiety, the ligand, which associates with the Ad virion either covalently or noncovalently. Adapters or adapter-ligand complexes success- fully used ...
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