Glossary terms

 acetylcholine               acetylcholinesterase        acid                       
 actin                       adenine                     ala                        
 aldehyde                    align                       allostere                  
 alphahelix                  amide                       amine                      
 amino acid                  ammonia                     amphipathic                
 antibodies                  arg                         aromatic                   
 ascorbic acid               asn                         asp                        
 atp                         atpase                      bacterium                  
 barrel                      base                        benzene                    
 betasandwich                betasheet                   blast                      
 butyl                       ca-dependent-degradation-   carbohydrate               
 carbonyl                    carboxy                     cartesian coordinates      
 catalyse                    chaperone                   chiral                     
 chromosome                  circular dichroism          citrate                    
 citric acid cycle           codon                       cofactor                   
 collagen                    concanavalin A              configuration              
 conformation                coulomb                     covalent bond              
 crossed over                crystallographic            cys                        
 cystine                     cytokine                    cytoplasm                  
 cytosine                    cytoskeleton                cytosol                    
 delocalisation              deltahelix                  denature                   
 dipole                      disulphide bond             dna                        
 dna topoisomerase           domain                      electrospray-MS            
 electrostatic               enantiomer                  entropic                   
 enzyme                      ethanol                     ethyl                      
 eukaryote                   exocytosis                  exon                       
 fold                        foldase                     genbank                    
 gene                        genetic code                genome                     
 glcnac                      gln                         glu                        
 glucose                     gly                         glycogen                   
 glycosidic bond             glycosylate                 golgi                      
 greekkey                    groel                       guanine                    
 haem                        haemoglobin                 hairpin                    
 heatshock protein           helix                       his                        
 histamine                   homology                    hydrogen bond              
 hydrolase                   hydrolyse                   hydrophilic                
 hydrophobic                 ig                          ile                        
 insulin                     interactions                intermediate filament      
 intron                      ion                         isomer                     
 isomerase                   jellyroll                   keratin                    
 kinase                      klotho                      lectin                     
 leu                         ligase                      lipase                     
 lyase                       lys                         lysosome                   
 lysozyme                    macromolecular              mannose                    
 medline                     met                         methyl                     
 microtubule                 mitochondrion               mrna                       
 myoglobin                   myosin                      myristoylate               
 nbrf                        neurotransmitter            nmr                        
 nuclear                     nucleoside                  nucleotide                 
 oligosaccharide             omega                       orf                        
 organelle                   oxidative phosphorylation   oxidoreductase             
 pdb                         pectate                     peptidase                  
 peptide                     peptide bond                periplasm                  
 peroxidase                  phe                         phi                        
 phosphatase                 phosphate                   phosphorylate              
 pir                         polysaccharide              primary structure          
 pro                         prochiral                   prokaryote                 
 propyl                      prosthetic                  protease                   
 protein                     proteolyse                  psi                        
 purine                      pyrimidine                  pyruvate                   
 quaternary structure        ramachandran                rasmol                     
 receptor                    redox                       retinol                    
 reverse turn                ribosome                    rna                        
 rnase                       rop                         rossmannfold               
 rotamer                     rrna                        scop                       
 secondary structure         seqnet                      sequence                   
 ser                         sheet                       side chain                 
 solvolysis                  ssrna                       stereocentre               
 stereoisomer                steroid hormone receptor    structure                  
 subtilisin                  sulphur                     supersecondary structure   
 swiss3d                     swissprot                   symmetry                   
 taq-polymerase              tertiary structure          thermophile                
 thiol                       thr                         thymine                    
 torsion angle               transcribe                  transferase                
 translate                   transport                   triacylglycerol lipase     
 trna                        trp                         trypsin                    
 tubulin                     tyr                         uracil                     
 urf                         val                         van der waals              
 virus                       watson crick                zinc finger                
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