Biochemistry

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5 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Biochemistry.

• Aerobic Respiration — A membrane-coupled metabolic process that transfers electrons from reduced biological fuels through a respiratory chain to molecular oxygen, captures redox energy as an electrochemical gradient, and uses that gradient to synthesize ATP.
• Alloprotein — Classify an engineered protein by the intentional incorporation of at least one nonproteinogenic or otherwise noncanonical amino-acid residue, preserving the residue position, incorporation evidence, folding, and functional comparison to its conventional counterpart.
• Citric acid cycle — A cyclic metabolic pathway that oxidizes acetyl units, regenerates oxaloacetate and transfers reducing equivalents for cellular energy metabolism.
• Lipid — A broad class of hydrophobic or amphipathic biological molecules grouped by solubility and biosynthetic structure, including fatty acyls, glycerolipids, phospholipids, sphingolipids, sterols, and related families.
• Michaelis–Menten Kinetics — An initial-rate enzyme-kinetics regime in which a variable substrate drives a rectangular-hyperbolic rate toward a limiting value V, with Km marking the substrate concentration at half that limit.