Genetics and Molecular Biology Terms

The first chromosome fault ever tied to a specific cancer, and now the target of drugs that switch off the protein it creates.

An enzyme involved in many functions of the cell, including the repair of DNA damage.

A polymer is a large molecule built from many repeating units, a structural pattern shared by plastics, DNA, and proteins.

A protein-bound polysaccharide derived from the mushroom Trametes versicolor (Turkey Tail) with immunoadjuvant and potential antitumor activities.

Genetics borrows the word for any generation descended from a defined parent, whether that parent is an organism, a cell or a virus.

A protein found inside the cells of the female reproductive tissue, some other types of tissue, and some cancer cells.

Describes cells that do not have a protein to which the hormone progesterone will bind.

Describes cells that have a protein to which the hormone progesterone will bind.

An enzyme that speeds up the formation of substances that cause inflammation and pain.

Prostatic acid phosphatase is an enzyme made by prostate tissue that once served as the primary blood marker for prostate cancer.

Proteins are chains of amino acids folded into specific shapes that carry out most of the body's structural, enzymatic, and signaling work.

Two cells carrying identical genes can hold wildly different amounts of a protein, and that gap is what expression measures.

Information about all proteins that are made in blood, other body fluids, or tissues, at certain times.

A group of enzymes involved in several processes related to cell growth and survival.

Because several distinct forms of PKC exist, the enzyme influences cell growth, programmed cell death, and other processes well beyond a single role.

Information about all proteins that are made in blood, other body fluids, or tissues, at certain times.

A molecule that contains both protein and glycosaminoglycans, which are a type of polysaccharide.

The large-scale study of every protein a cell is making, a picture that changes far faster than its genes do.

A gene involved in normal cell growth.

PSA is a protein measured in the blood that reflects prostate gland activity and can be elevated by cancer or noncancerous conditions.