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The graph to the right shows the nonlinear relationship between the size of the DNA fragment and the distance migrated. Gel electrophoresis is a process where an electric current is applied to DNA samples creating fragments that can be used for comparison between DNA samples. DNA is extracted. Isolation and amplification of DNA.
In 1953, with the help of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin's X-ray crystallography, James Watson and Francis Crick proposed DNA is structured as a double helix. [1] In the 1960s, one main DNA mystery scientists needed to figure out was the number of bases found in each code word, or codon, during transcription.
Oswald Avery discovered that the substance responsible for producing inheritable change in the disease-causing bacteria was neither a protein nor a lipid, rather deoxyribonucleic acid . He and his colleagues Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty suggested that DNA was responsible for transferring genetic information.
Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is a type of immunoprecipitation experimental technique used to investigate the interaction between proteins and DNA in the cell. It aims to determine whether specific proteins are associated with specific genomic regions, such as transcription factors on promoters or other DNA binding sites , and possibly ...
This could include bridging proteins, nucleic acids (DNA or RNA), or other molecules. Bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) is a new technique in observing the interactions of proteins. Combining with other new techniques, this method can be used to screen protein–protein interactions and their modulators, [3] DERB. [4]
Robotic preparation of MALDI mass spectrometry samples on a sample carrier. Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins. [1] [2] Proteins are vital macromolecules of all living organisms, with many functions such as the formation of structural fibers of muscle tissue, enzymatic digestion of food, or synthesis and replication of DNA.
Several labs have reported sequence-specific polymerization of peptide nucleic acids from DNA or RNA templates. [6] [7] [8] Liu and coworkers used these polymerization methods to evolve functional PNAs with the ability to fold into three-dimensional structures, similar to proteins, aptamers and ribozymes. [6]
Picture of an SDS-PAGE. The molecular markers (ladder) are in the left lane. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) is a technique widely used in biochemistry, forensic chemistry, genetics, molecular biology and biotechnology to separate biological macromolecules, usually proteins or nucleic acids, according to their electrophoretic mobility.