A plot of the concentration of a solute absorbed by a protein, membrane, cell, etc., against its concentration in the surrounding medium.
〔生化〕斯卡查德图（指反映蛋白质、膜、细胞等所吸收的溶液浓度与溶质在周围介质中浓度之比的图）
Example sentencesExamples
For each sample the fraction of the bound ligand was calculated and the data were drawn according to a Scatchard plot.
A Scatchard plot provided evidence for two different ABA binding proteins, one with higher affinity and the other with lower affinity.
To investigate whether the decrease in insulin binding was attributed to a decrease in the number of receptor sites per cell, the Scatchard plot for the data was analyzed.
The presence of a single binding site per RyR was confirmed in the Scatchard plot, where the straight line was constructed using the same parameters as above.
Previously, they were able to obtain Scatchard plots for the binding of RB - 5'-phosphate with albumin, but this experiment failed with RB because of the small binding constant.
Origin
1940s: named after George Scatchard (1892–1973), American physical chemist.