A scanning electron microscope, or SEM, is one of the most popularly used instrumental methods for examining and analyzing the microstructure and morphology of solid materials. Basically, it operates using the same principles as a light microscope with one main difference: It uses focused electron beams instead of photons in magnifying an object.
While antibiotics are designed to directly hinder bacterial translation, their efficacy is significantly reduced when pathogens develop drug resistance through a variety of mechanisms, which include ribosomal modifications, translation elongation factors, ribosomal protection proteins, and mistranslation.
Topics: Protein Purification, Western Blotting, Protein Electrophoresis, Protein Estimation, Sample Clean Up, Protein Concentration, Protein Fractionation, Protein Extraction, Buffers & Chemicals, Protein Detection
Proteinase K is a serine protease, the presence of a catalytic triad characterizes serine proteases, the catalytic triad is a cluster of three amino acids that make the catalytic center and consists of serine, aspartic acid, and histidine amino acids, which can often vary but all of these enzymes have a nucleophile serine and the same catalytic mechanism. Proteinase K has a catalytic triad consisting of Ser 224, His 69, and Asp 39. The substrate recognition sites are made up of peptide chains, 99-104 and 132-136.
Topics: Protein Purification, Molecular Biology
