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- noun biochemistry A
multimeric protein consisting of two or more identical components.
Etymologies
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homo- + multimer
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The needle complex is a large homomultimer composed of ~120 repeated copies of the monomeric protein PrgI, a small helical protein of 83 amino acids
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