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Processing

processing

1. Posttranslational modification of proteins, particularly secretory proteins and proteins targeted for membranes or specific cellular locations.

Synonym: trafficking.

2. Posttranscriptional modification of polynucleic acids.


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Cell respiration alternative fuels?

... Fats are broken down into their constituents - fatty acids and glycerol then sent to respective parts of the respiration process, although further processing by enzymes must occur before. Proteins are broken down into their constituents - amino acids, which are further processed to feed into the ...

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by Jesse2504
Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:21 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Cell respiration alternative fuels?
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What are today's bioinformatic bottlenecks?

... what common or important bioinformatic tasks are the slowest or most limiting? My background is in text compression, databases, and parallel processing, but I know basic bionformatic algorithms as well, since they're so related. But what I don't know is what, in practice, is the bottleneck ...

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by GerryB
Sat May 02, 2009 9:57 am
 
Forum: Bioinformatics
Topic: What are today's bioinformatic bottlenecks?
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Cell Culture Bacterial Contamination

... line while at the same time getting rid of the gram positive rods. The source of this contamination is from the ficoll-hypaque used during blood processing. We have tried a 2 week pen/strep routine with poor results. Can anyone recommend an antibiotic regiment or strategy for eliminating this ...

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by Katt
Wed Mar 25, 2009 4:43 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Cell Culture Bacterial Contamination
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Re: dog and wolf

... 1.) Dogs have longer intestines than wolves. Generally, herbivores and omnivores have longer intestines than pure predaters, because it takes more processing to make a piece of a tree into a piece of you than to make a piece of a cow (one mammal) than a piece of another mammal. That processing ...

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by EdLincoln
Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:51 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: dog and wolf
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How did the brain form?

Do a check on "cephalization." Sensory and processing cells probably started on the surface (which is probably why even internal systems start as ectoderm) with deeper semi-coordinated connections, as in nerve nets. Better interactions and ...

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by Darby
Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:28 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: How did the brain form?
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