denaturing
Speech parts
1. denaturing - Noun
2. denaturing - Verb
Meaning
denaturing
present participle of denature
denaturing (plural denaturings)
The process by which something is denatured.
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Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.
A classic example of denaturing in proteins comes from egg whites, which are typically largely egg albumins in water.
For this reason, presence of alkaline phosphatase is an ideal indicator of pasteurization efficacy. citation citation Phosphatase denaturing was originally monitored using a phenol -phosphate substrate.
In the case of the SDS-PAGE application, the compound works by disrupting non-covalent bonds in the proteins, and so denaturing them, i.e., causing the protein molecules to lose their native conformations and shapes.
Some species of halobacteria have acidic proteins that resist the denaturing effects of salts.
The RNA samples are most commonly separated on agarose gels containing formaldehyde as a denaturing agent for the RNA to limit secondary structure.