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- verb chemistry To form a
dimer from two identicalmonomers
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homodimer + -ize
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Upon FGF binding, the receptors homodimerize and are autophosphorylated, leading to the activation of the kinase activity.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mohamed Bouzaffour et al. 2009
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