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denature
The team discovered that high temperatures denature the BRCA2 protein, a DNA-repair enzyme.
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Strong acids and bases denature proteins and also hydrate easily.
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This can then be used to extract proteins, which would denature if exposed to organic solvents.
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Heat processing may denature proteins and certain vitamins.
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Fruit must be either canned or cooked to a temperature high enough to denature the bromelain enzyme it contains.
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Through normalization, scientists heat up DNA to a point in which its two component strands split, or denature.
From the sciencedaily.com
These products denature the protein in the feces, which Ford explained is the substance to which people are allergic.
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Similarly, many proteins will denature if the solute concentration of their solution is too high or too low.
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During this time, the milk gets hot enough to denature some of the casein before it has formed a complex with the polyphenols.
From the newscientist.com
- Add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb
- Modify (as a native protein) especially by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished
- Make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes
- (denatured) changed in nature or natural quality; "denatured alcohol"
- (Denaturation (fissile materials)) Denaturation of fissile materials suitable for nuclear weapons is the process of transforming them into a form that is not suitable for weapons use and can not easily be reversely transformed. ...
- (Denaturation (food)) Food is deliberately "denatured" when it is rendered inedible via the use of chemical and/or physical adulterants, which are intended to affect the food's palatability or appearance to a degree whereupon it becomes unappealing or even toxic to consume.
- (Denaturation (protein)) Denaturation is a process in which proteins or nucleic acids lose their tertiary structure and secondary structure by application of some external stress or compound, such as a strong acid or base, a concentrated inorganic salt, an organic solvent (e.g. ...
- To take away a natural characteristic or inherent property of a thing or a person; to add something that makes alcohol unsuitable for consumption but leaves the alcohol suitable for other purposes; To subject (especially a protein) to conditions altering its original form or state; To combine ...
- (denatured) Having been deprived of its nature, having had its nature changed; Of alcohol made undrinkable, by adding a toxin or unpalatable substance, but still useful as a fuel or solvent. Traditionally by the addition of methanol (wood alcohol)
