Biochemistry
Contributing Articles in Biochemistry
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Structure of an Atom
Atoms are the basic building blocks of matter. They form the molecules that are involved in the processes of living systems.
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Cell Membrane
Water is highly organized by contact with the double layer of membrane lipids. Hydrophilic phosphates of the phospholipids hydrogen bond into the water surface layers.
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What Is Surface Tension?
Water at the surface is frozen in a stretched sheet of optimally bonded molecules, as molecules shake into the minimal energy configuration.
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Reaction Specificity of Enzymes
Enzymes bind to particular molecules, because the protein secondary structure rigidly displays amino acid functional groups that make multiple bonds with the molecules.
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Proteins and Amino Acids
Proteins are a major component of all of our cells. Amino acids are the building blocks of protein. Amino acids can be grouped according to their chemical behavior.
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Oxygen and Dietary Antioxidants
Why do we breathe oxygen? Oxygen is necessary for life, and the human brain can only survive a few minutes without oxygen. So why the great interest in antioxidants?
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Automated Peptide Synthesis
The discovery in 1963 by Bruce Merrifield of a way to automatically synthesise polypeptides and protiens accurately and without loss of yield.
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What Is Cellular Metabolism?
We hear the word used all the time, read diet books on how to boost ours and lament its slowing as we age. But what exactly is metabolism?
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What Is an Enzyme Catalyst?
A cell's ability to carry out essential chemical reactions separates the animate from inanimate. Without these biological catalysts, life itself would not be possible.
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What Is the Nucleotide ATP?
Adenosine triphosphate is a power-packed nucleotide that cells of our body just can't live without. Here's a clear summary of what ATP is, how it works and how it's made.
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Enzyme Inhibition
Read about the goals of Ribonuclease A,TPCK and enzyme inhibition in modern protein chemistry.
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Cholesterol Chemistry
A chemical description of an infamous but important chemical which is ever-present in dietary advice.
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The Chemistry of Fat
Describing the importance of different kinds of fats in the human body. Explaining terms like Saturated, Mono-unsaturated and Poly-unsaturated, cis and trans.
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Proteins
Protein is one of the nutrients we must consume to stay healthy, but what is it and what does it do in the human body?
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