Month: December 2014

 NADPH is the reduced form of Nicotinamide Adenosine Dinucleotide Phosphate or NADP+. It is used in different reductive biosynthetic pathways where it acts as a reducing agent. Biosynthetic pathways such as fatty acid biosynthesis, cholesterol biosynthesis, hormone biosynthesis, etc. all use NADPH as a reducing agent. …

 An introduction to the glycolysis Glycolysis is the lysis of glucose molecules. It is a pathway that cleaves one molecule of glucose into two molecules of pyruvate. Glycolysis occurs in the cytosol and involves a set of ten reactions. There are 10 different enzymes loosely associated …

 Partition chromatography is a type of chromatography. It is one of the most useful biochemical lab procedures of high use. Biochemistry and chemistry researchers use partition chromatography to separate different biomolecules such as proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids. Partition chromatography involves differences in the retention factor (K) as …

 Lactose is a milk sugar present in only the milk. It is a disaccharide composed of D-galactose and D-glucose linked through β 1-4 glycosidic linkage. Lactose synthesized involves a series of reactions and the pathway is lactose synthesis pathway. Lactose doesn’t have a free hydroxy group …