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  • verb chemistry To produce, or to undergo dimerization

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Examples

  • The only drawbacks to the use of EGFP are a slight sensitivity to pH and a weak tendency to dimerize.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • Likewise, Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein is thought to participate in a tetrameric complex with aequorin, but this phenomenon has only been observed at very high protein concentrations and the tendency of jellyfish fluorescent proteins to dimerize is generally very weak (having a dissociation constant greater than 100 micromolar).

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • He was intrigued, but was concerned that too much of the NO2 would dimerize to

    Richard E. Smalley - Autobiography 1997

  • Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes that undergo proteolytic processing at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme.

    WN.com - Articles related to DTI favors zero tariffs on cement, wheat 2010

  • Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes that undergo proteolytic processing at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme.

    WN.com - Articles related to DTI favors zero tariffs on cement, wheat 2010

  • FOS is one of the leucine zipper proteins that can dimerize with proteins of the JUN family, thereby forming the transcription factor complex AP-1.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gang Wu et al. 2010

  • (HIF-1 {alpha}, HIF-2 {alpha}/EPAS1, HIF-3 {alpha}) that dimerize with a β subunit encoded by

    Discover Blogs 2010

  • Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes which undergo proteolytic processing by upstream caspases (caspase-8, -9) at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme in the form of

    WN.com - Articles related to DTI favors zero tariffs on cement, wheat 2010

  • Additionally, as shown for other STPKs, we observe that PknJ possesses the capability to dimerize.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gunjan Arora et al. 2010

  • Additionally, as shown for other STPKs, we observe that PknJ possesses the capability to dimerize.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gunjan Arora et al. 2010

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