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  • noun biochemistry A protein consisting of multiple monomers

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multi- + -mer

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Examples

  • Activation of TG2 in response to hypoxic stress inhibited caspase-3 activity by forming crosslinked multimer, resulting in insoluble aggregates.

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  • Multimer positive populations from either group did not differ with respect to the percentage of multimer positive CTLs and the intensity of multimer binding.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Vaios Karanikas 2010

  • Kiratisin P, Tucker KD, Passador L (2002) LasR, a transcriptional activator of Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence genes, functions as a multimer.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Thomas Bjarnsholt et al. 2010

  • Peripheral blood mononuclear cells from lung cancer patients, age-matched and younger healthy individuals were used to measure EBV-specific CTLs after in vitro amplification with the GLCTLVAML and RYSIFFDYM peptides followed by HLA-multimer staining.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Vaios Karanikas 2010

  • The observed penetration of eGFP-multimers into the cell nuclei and the fact that homomultimeric forms of eGFP can still diffuse into the nucleus, albeit with reduced import efficiency for increasing eGFP-multimer size, agrees with previous reports

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • In all cases, HPV-16 E7 expression was accompanied by a drastic decrease in the GSTP1 oxidized multimeric form (GSTP1 multimer ox) and of the lowest band, which represents the oxidized GSTP1 monomer (GSTP1 monomer ox).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • These results suggest that hBest1 functions as a multimer in the plasma membrane, and disruption of the

    Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue Qu, Z., Cheng, W., Cui, Y., Cui, Y., Zheng, J. 2009

  • (E) Space-filled model of Aβ (orange) / α-syn (gray) multimer embedded in the membrane (green) at a depth of 1. 6Å after 800 ps of MD simulation.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2008

  • Semi-quantitative analysis of α-syn multimer levels showing increasing levels of α-syn dodecamer with increasing Aβ concentration.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2008

  • There are two cysteine residues within the hydrophobic N terminus of SP-D that are critical for multimer assembly and have been proposed to be involved in stabilizing disulfide bonds.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2008

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