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Glycine

Glycine

(Science: amino acid, physiology) The simplest amino acid. It is a common residue in proteins, especially collagen and elastin and is not optically active.

It is also a major inhibitory neurotransmitter in spinal cord and brainstem of vertebrate central nervous system.


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Not getting lower molecular weight bands in SDS-PAGE

... by immunobloting the membrane with higher (VDAC-1) and lower molecular weight (COX-IV) proteins. Could you please help??(12% SDS-PAGE, TRIS-GLYCINE GEL RUNNING BUFFER) thanking you in anticipation, Writoban.

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by writoban
Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:52 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Not getting lower molecular weight bands in SDS-PAGE
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Discussion of Cocamidopropyl betaine

... ionic surfactants would cause. It also serves as an antistatic agent in hair conditioners. Cocamidopropyl betaine is a derivate of cocamide and glycine betaine (a form of betaine). See cocamide for the discussion of the length of carbon chain in the molecule. Cocamidopropyl betaine is a medium ...

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by vikasm
Sat Jul 11, 2009 7:15 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Discussion of Cocamidopropyl betaine
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Glycine rich loops

Hi there, Was going through a past test questions and need some help with the following question: The glycine rich loop of protein kinases contains highly conserved glycine residues. Why are they conserved? possible info?? Glycine is flexible therefore allows loop to open ...

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by biology_06er
Mon Jun 15, 2009 4:33 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Glycine rich loops
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Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?

... heme molecule. I knew it was way too small. There are 4 of them in each hemoglobin molecule. A total of 287 amino acids plus the 4 heme molecules. Glycine is one of the smallest organic aa's and it has 10 atoms. So it's conceivable that hemeglobin has 3000 atoms. Even with if all the atoms were ...

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by AFJ
Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:19 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?
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my unknown

... for coagulase in your lab? S. aureus will be coagulase (+), S. epidermidis and others will be coagulase (-). You may have access to TGA (Tellurite-Glycine Agar) plates, which differentiate coagulase + (black pigmented colonies) and coagulase - (grayish, or white)although it's certainly not perfect. ...

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by gakerty
Wed May 13, 2009 5:22 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: my unknown
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