protein derivative

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• purified protein derivative — pu·ri·fied protein derivative pyu̇r ə .fīd n a highly purified preparation of tuberculin used in skin tests (as the Mantoux test) to detect tuberculous infection abbr. PPD * * * (PPD) see under tuberculin …   Medical dictionary

• pu|ri|fied protein derivative — «PYUR uh fyd», a dried tuberculin, obtained from the filtrates of cultures of tubercle bacilli. Abbr: PPD (no periods) …   Useful english dictionary

• Protein sequencing — Proteins are found in every cell and are essential to every biological process, protein structure is very complex: determining a protein s structure involves first protein sequencing determining the amino acid sequences of its constituent… …   Wikipedia

• Protein (disambiguation) — Protein is a class of biomolecules composed of amino acid chains.Protein may also refer to:Biochemistry* Antifreeze protein, class of polypeptides produced by certain fish, vertebrates, plants, fungi and bacteria * Conjugated protein, protein… …   Wikipedia

• Protein-lipid interaction — is the influence of membrane proteins on the lipid physical state or vice versa. The questions which are relevant to understanding of the structure and function of the membrane are: 1) Do intrinsic membrane proteins bind tightly to lipids, and… …   Wikipedia

• Protein phosphorylation — is a post translational modification of proteins in which a serine, a threonine or a tyrosine reside is covalently modified by a protein kinase enzyme by the addition of a phosphate group. Regulation of proteins by phosphorylation is one of the… …   Wikipedia

• Protein catabolism — is the breakdown of proteins into amino acids and simple derivative compounds, for transport into the cell through the plasma membrane and ultimately for the polymerisation into new proteins via the use of ribonucleic acids (RNA) and ribosomes.… …   Wikipedia

• Protein — Proteins are large organic compounds made of amino acids arranged in a linear chain and joined together by peptide bonds between the carboxyl and amino groups of adjacent amino acid residues. The sequence of amino acids in a protein is defined by …   Wikipedia

• Protein — A large molecule composed of one or more chains of amino acids in a specific order determined by the base sequence of nucleotides in the DNA coding for the protein. Proteins are required for the structure, function, and regulation of the body s… …   Medical dictionary

• protein — [19] The word protein was coined (as French protéine) by the Dutch chemist Mulder in the late 1830s. He based it on late Greek prōteios ‘primary’, a derivative of Greek prótos ‘first’ (see PROTOZOA), the notion being that proteins were substances …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• protein — [19] The word protein was coined (as French protéine) by the Dutch chemist Mulder in the late 1830s. He based it on late Greek prōteios ‘primary’, a derivative of Greek prótos ‘first’ (see PROTOZOA), the notion being that proteins were substances …   Word origins