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Sanger's reagent (medicine) and simple fission (medicine)


Sanger's reagent (medicine)


Sanger's reagent -->
fluoro-2,4-dinitrobenzene


A reagent used to combine with the free NH2 group of the NH2-terminal amino acid residue in a peptide, thus marking this residue; the combined forms are known as DNP-proteins, Dnp-aminoacyl, etc., the fluorine having been replaced to leave a dinitrophenyl residue (DNP, Dnp, or N2Ph-) attached to the NH2 group.

Synonym: Sanger's reagent.

Acronym: FDNB


simple fission (medicine)


simple fission
Division of the nucleus and then the cell body into two parts.

See: binary fission.