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subunit

(Science: cell biology) components from which a structure is built, thus myosin has six subunits, microtubules are built of tubulin subunits. In some cases it may be more informative to speak of protomers.


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potential Vaccine Candidates

... Colleagues, Recently, we have published MHCBN version 4.0 in BMC research notes. This databases contains T-cell epitopes, potential candidates for subunit vaccine design. Original MHCBN database (Bioinformatics Vol. 19 no. 5 2003) is heavily used by scientific community; cited more than 100 times ...

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by raghavagps
Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:43 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: potential Vaccine Candidates
Replies: 0
Views: 197

Protein Synthesis Steps

... a Quicktime video that might help. There are a few things I wish I could change. For instance, the mRNA should loop into a circle before the small subunit of the ribosome docks at the 5' cap. Overall though, this shows the steps of transcription, splicing, nuclear export and ribosomal assembly ...

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by jonmoulton
Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:39 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Protein Synthesis Steps
Replies: 3
Views: 991

Gene expression

... that produce their own polypeptide products. But the fact that a hemoglobin molecule contains two alpha chains does not necessarily mean that one subunit came from one allele and the other came from the other allele. both alleles produce their proteins independently, and then the alpha chains ...

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by MrMistery
Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:51 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Gene expression
Replies: 1
Views: 418

Re: Heme group question

... sure: My textbook lists heme and heme group as different entries. So they are still the same???? According to my textbook, a heme is a "Each subunit has a nonpolypeptide component, called heme, with an iron atom that binds oxygen." The definition does not include the word group. Could ...

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by thewax
Wed Dec 24, 2008 7:38 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Heme group question
Replies: 7
Views: 755

Control of embryonic gene translation

... of dormancy (assuming spores as well?), that mRNA processing will yield an incomplete poly'A tail, which disallows the binding of the ribosomal subunit etc. When development is triggered, an enzyme will complete the Poly'A tail, allowing for the binding of the small ribosomal sub-ubit, and thus ...

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by keenangp
Sat Dec 13, 2008 4:07 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Control of embryonic gene translation
Replies: 1
Views: 511
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