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Binding of insulin to the outer subunits of the receptor causes a conformational change in the membrane spanning -subunits, which is also an enzyme, a tyrosine kinase. The activated -subunits add phosphate groups of specific tyrosine residues located in cytoplasmic domain of th..

The esterification of carboxylic acids with alcohols is a kind of nucleophilic acyl substitution. The first step is the protonation of the carbonyl oxygen, which activates the carbonyl group towards nucleophilic addition of the alcohol. The tetrahedral intermediate, which is ..

Summary - Aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and their functional derivatives (aryl halides, acid anhydrides, esters and amides) contain a carbonyl group and are highly polar molecules. They boil at higher temperature than hydrocarbon and weakly polar compounds like ethers, of comparabl..

Introduction - This chapter contains oxygen compounds in which oxygen is bonded to a carbon atom through a double bond. The functional unit >C = O, present in these compounds is called carbonyl group. We limit our study now to compounds having an acyl group (R - C =..

>RNA cannot undergo replication and have to be synthesised only from DNA. Enzymes are basically proteins that function as biological catalysts. Enzymes carry on their catalytic action by lowering the activation energy required for a reaction to proceed. Sometimes an enzymeh..

It is the step in which each of the participating amino acid reacts with ATP to form amino acid AMP complex and pyrophosphate. The reaction is catalyzed by a specific amino acid activating enzyme called aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase in the presence of Mg2+. There is a separate aminoacyl tRNA..

The various ribonucleoside triphosphates on linking to the DNA template chain break off their high-energy bonds. This changes them to ribonucleoside monophosphates which represent the normal components of RNA, and sets free pyrophosphate groups (P~P). Pyrophosphate contains a high-energy ..

Maltose is made up of two a -D-glucose (in pyranose form) units held together by a (1 4) glycosidic bond. As there is a free aldehyde group at C-1 position of the second glucose molecule, maltose is known as reducing sugar. Maltose forms osazones. The enzyme that hydroly..

A gel is immersed in a buffered solution, and then DNA fragments from individuals are added to the gel. When an electric current is applied to the solution, one end of the gel takes on a negative charge, and the other end a positive charge. DNA molecules carry a negative charge (because of the nega..