Specificity

Enzymes are biological catalysts. a. Relate the chemical structure of an enzyme to its specificity and catalytic activity. b. Design a quantitative experiment to investigate the influence of pH or temperature on the activity of an enzyme. c. Describe what information ...

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Hi Yuli, By its nature, RNAi is not very specific. See this blog post for a brief discussion and some citations on the topic of RNAi specificity: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&blogId=496461710 There is software that scans an RNA sequence ...

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... http://www.biacore.com/lifesciences/introduction/index.html I quote that page: "Biacore systems characterize molecules in terms of their: specificity of interaction on and off rates (kinetics) binding strength (affinity)"

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1/There are many different stains, that have more or less specificity, w/r to what they are reacting with, but basically, the idea is to increase contrast between stained and non stained structure. Some stains are called vital and do not kill a cell, ...

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... but not present in the host body. This way the receptors that recognize these can be assembled straight from their respective genes (their specificity is inherited) - unlike receptors of the adaptive immune system, where each antigen-specific molecule (such as antibodies and T cell receptors) ...

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