Acyl carrier protein (ACP) is a small lipid carrier protein involved in fatty acid biosynthesis and in the solubilization of fats to make them metabolically available. The molecule is difficult to obt...
Learn More

Phosphoglucomutase (PGM) is a glycolytic enzyme that converts glucose 1-phosphate to glucose 6-phosphate. This enzyme plays a major role in directing the flow of carbon toward either anabolic or catab...
Learn More

Promoters are genetic regulatory elements that drive gene expression in cells under certain conditions. One way to identify promoters is to use a promoter-trap vector, which is a plasmid containing a ...
Learn More

Plasmid R6K is an antibiotic resistance plasmid of E. coli and a popular cloning vector. The R6K protein pi, which is encoded by the pir gene, plays a key role in R6K replication.
Learn More

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a member of the Herpes family of viruses.  The genome of this virus usually is maintained as a nuclear plasmid in the cells it infects.  A replication origin (oriP) i...
Learn More

Human embryonic stem (ES) cells are potentially capable of supplying cells and tissues for replacement of defective human tissue. However, procedures currently used to culture human ES cells involve t...
Learn More