See Also: FDNB(medicine)
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lear(2) (iou) and FDNB (medicine)


lear(2) (iou)



lear noun1. Now Scot. & north. LME.
[from lear var. of LERE verb. Cf. LORE noun1.]
Instruction, learning. Formerly also, a piece of instruction, a lesson; a doctrine, a Religion.
Comb.: lear-father a master in learning; a person who has influenced others.

FDNB (medicine)


FDNB -->
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