crosslink

(thing) by alexboko Sat Nov 13 1999 at 10:04:56
In the context of biochemistry, a crosslink is a connection between two parallel chains of a biological molecule. This can be either a feature as in the case of disulfide bonds in many proteins, or a bug, as in the case of molecular damage that accumulates during the aging process.
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