active site 1 the general region of an enzyme molecule containing the catalytic residues identified with the binding and reaction of substrate( s). It includes those amino-acid residues that are, in the enzyme– substrate complex, either contact amino acids, i.e. those that at some point are only one bond distance removed from some point of

actinoid or actinide any member of the series of 15 metallic elements with proton numbers 89 (actinium) to 103 (lawrencium) inclusive that occur together in group 3 and period 7 of the IUPAC periodic table; sometimes the term is restricted to the 14 elements following actinium. Actinoid is now the preferred name. All actinoids are

actinin a minor protein constituent of muscle, found to be concentrated in both the Z line and the I band. Two components of actinin have been identified: a-actinin, F-actin cross-linking protein, a dimer of ∼200 kDa with an action similar to that of actinogelin.; and b-actinin, a dimer of ∼70 kDa, similar in action to