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Established in October 1945 with the objective of eliminating hunger and improving nutrition and standards of living by increasing agricultural productivity, FAO coordinates the efforts of governments and technical agencies in programs for developing agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and land and ...
A protein that is functional at one temperature but loses function at another (usually higher) temperature.
Industry:Biotechnology
A protein that prevents RNA polymerase from terminating transcription at specific transcription termination sequences.
Industry:Biotechnology
A protein which binds to a specific DNA sequence (the operator) upstream from the transcription initiation site of a gene or operon and prevents RNA polymerase from commencing mRNA synthesis. Examples of repressors are the C<sub>1</sub> protein of bacteriophage and the <i>lac</i>1 protein of the <i>lac</i> operon.
Industry:Biotechnology
A protein whose amino acid sequence is encoded by a cloned gene.
Industry:Biotechnology
A protein-replication complex that catalyses the initiation of synthesis of Okazaki fragments during discontinuous replication of DNA. It involves DNA primase and DNA helicase activities.
Industry:Biotechnology
A proteolytic enzyme that hydrolyzes peptide bonds on the carboxyl side of the amino acids arginine and lysine.
Industry:Biotechnology
A protocol for labelling DNA <i>in vitro</i>. A sample of random oligonucleotides (6 or 14 nucleotides long) containing all possible combinations of nucleotide sequences is hybridized to a DNA probe. Then, in the presence of a DNA polymerase and the four deoxyribonucleotides - one of which is labelled - the 3´ hydroxy ends of the hybridized oligonucleotides provide initiation sites for DNA synthesis that uses the separated strands of the probe DNA as a template. This reaction produces labelled copies of portions of the probe DNA.
Industry:Biotechnology
A purification technique in which an antibody is bound to a matrix and is subsequently used to bind and separate a protein from a complex mixture.
Industry:Biotechnology
