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UBIQUITIN LIGASE

 
 
Reply Fri 20 Mar, 2009 03:21 pm
Very interesting substance that is involved in the combination and breaking down of proteins in the living cell. As Dr Greengard says, "This is waay too complicated for a god to be involved with"


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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Fri 20 Mar, 2009 03:45 pm
@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:

Very interesting substance that is involved in the combination and breaking down of proteins in the living cell. As Dr Greengard says, "This is waay too complicated for a god to be involved with"


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Is that in Chinese?
farmerman
 
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Reply Fri 20 Mar, 2009 03:57 pm
@edgarblythe,
there are a number of chemical substances named for what their biggest feature is. "Ubiquitin"-Its everywhere. Noone really understood how proteins were completed or broken in their various linkages. LIke DNA is surrounded by this film of nucleotides and ubiquitin. Its a neat little system that keeps our cells from filling up with garbage and to promote correct linkeages (and mutations).

Its becoming a key substance in evolutionary molecular chemistry.
rosborne979
 
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Reply Fri 20 Mar, 2009 04:02 pm
@farmerman,
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"Ubiquitin"-Its everywhere.

Like in, Ubiquitous ?

Who the hell named that stuff? They should be shot.
farmerman
 
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Reply Fri 20 Mar, 2009 04:08 pm
@rosborne979,
The guys who discovered it won a Nobel. The team leader has a really weird name and a weirder sense of humor.

But it beats "everywhereine" .

How about putrecine or cadaverine? They really mean what their names say they mean.

Course theres always Dickite or moronine and arsole.
rosborne979
 
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Reply Fri 20 Mar, 2009 04:13 pm
@farmerman,
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But it beats "everywhereine" .

Hey, I like that one Smile

If you're going to come up with a silly name for something, then there's no sense going half way.
farmerman
 
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Reply Sat 21 Mar, 2009 07:07 am
@rosborne979,
HEy, I dont make this **** up. Someone else does. SAome dudes won the Nobel Prize in the "silly chemicals" division.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Sat 21 Mar, 2009 07:40 am
I applaud your dedication to low humor, General.
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