BIOL398-04/S15:Jeffrey Crosson Week 2

• Proline: a heterocyclic, nonpolar, ring-like amino acid that is present in all proteins studied to date
  • http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100349185

• Gram-negative: the group of bacteria, or a related one, that takes the color of the counterstain after gram staining
  • http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Gram-negative

• Transferase: the suffix to the name of an enzyme indicating that it transfers a specific grouping between molecules
  • http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Transferase

• Urea: final nitrogenous excretion product of many organisms, a molecules created from ammonia and carbon dioxide as a result of the urea cycle

http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Urea

• Acetaldehyde: oxidation product of ethanol, also called ethanal
  • http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199641666.001.0001/acref-9780199641666-e-9099?rskey=7QVeDe&result=1

• Dehydrogenase: anenzyme that oxidizes a substrate by transferring hydrogen to an acceptor, this is used in the cytochrome system in respiration to produce ATP
  • http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Dehydrogenase

• Synthetase: catalyse synthesis of molecules, breaks down a nucleotide triphosphate.
  • http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Synthetase

• Permease: a membrane-bound protein in bacteria that transports specific substances in or out of the cell
  • http://www.oxfordreference.com/search?siteToSearch=aup&q=permease&searchBtn=Search&isQuickSearch=true

• Oligonucleotide: linear sequence of up to 20 nucleotides joined by phosphodiester bonds

http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Oligonucleotide

• Northern analysis: similar to the southern blot analysis, used mostly to separate and identify rNA fragments
  • http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Northern_blot_analysis