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Can luciferin + ATP → luciferyl adenylate + PPi be reversed?
Reading about the light emitting reaction of luciferin + ATP, catalysed by luciferase I am confused about the following.
On this webpage the partial formula is written as:
luciferin + ATP → ...
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Does using stonger soaps help me lose weight?
Soaps are amphiphilic molecules that, practically, removes body oils from the surface of the skin. The body, on the other hand, always replenishes sebum through the sebaceous glands after a certain ...
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Isoelectric pH of colloids?
How did we derive the relation between the isoelectric pH and the dissociation constants for the amino and carboxyl groups on zwitterionic amino acids.
$$pI=\frac {pK_{a1}+pK_{a2}}{2}$$
where $$\ce{...