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Showing posts with label Proteins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Proteins. Show all posts
Friday, March 17, 2017

Myoglobin

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Myoglobin is a cytoplasmic hemoprotein composed by a single polypeptide chain of 154 amino acids. It is expressed solely in cardiac myocyt...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Insulin

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Insulin is a polypeptide hormone produced, stored and secreted in Beta cells of the islets of Langerhans, in the pancreas (in a histologi...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Hemoglobin

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For higher animals, simple diffusion mechanisms in body fluids are not an efficient way to meet the oxygenation needs of their tissues and ...
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Thursday, September 15, 2016

Glycogenin

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The glycogenin is a protein whose main function is to be the initiator molecule of glycogen synthesis (glycogenesis), a process that allows...
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Enolase

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Enolase is an enzyme, more particularly, an active metalloenzyme. This enzyme belongs to the family of lyases, the hydro-lyases, breaking t...
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Cytochrome c

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Cytochromes were first described in 1884 by MacMunn as respiratory pigments. Later, in 1920, Keilin rediscovered these respiratory pigments...
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Friday, August 12, 2016

Video about protein structure

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Thursday, August 11, 2016

Catalase

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Catalase, or hydroperoxidase, is an intracellular enzyme found in most organisms. This protein is found in the peroxisomes, glyoxisomes (pl...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Video about the isoelectric point of a protein

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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Albumin

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Albumin is a globular protein consisting only of amino acids. It is soluble in water, sparingly soluble in concentrated salt solutions and ...
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Cartoon - Pepetide bond

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Sunday, July 24, 2016

Isoelectric point (aminoacids and proteins)

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Amino acids are, as mentioned in other posts, molecules that have an amino group and a carboxylic group. These two groups are ionizabl...
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Thursday, July 21, 2016

Vasopressin

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Vasopressin (væsoʊprɛsən / vaso + -in + pressure), also known as antidiuretic hormone (ADH) has a molecular weight of 1228 kDa and is forme...
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Amino acids with uncharged polar side chains

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This class of amino acids includes those that do not have ionizable functional groups on its side chain. In fact, despite the definit...
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