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  • adjective biochemistry Describing a protein that has multiple polypeptide chains

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Examples

  • Early gene expression in the liver graft after reperfusion - use of cDNA microarray, RNA protection assays, and multimeric RT-PCR technology.

    Basic Biliary Atresia Research 2010

  • Early gene expression in the liver graft after reperfusion - use of cDNA microarray, RNA protection assays, and multimeric RT-PCR technology.

    Basic Science Liver Disease Research 2010

  • Specifically, a multimeric complex that: 1. permits passage of ions through membranes; 2. and binds a “trigger” that causes the gate to open from what is otherwise a “closed” state.

    The Panda's Thumb: Irreducible Complexity Archives 2010

  • Specifically, a multimeric complex that: 1. permits passage of ions through membranes; 2. and binds a “trigger” that causes the gate to open from what is otherwise a “closed” state.

    The Panda's Thumb: Arthur Hunt Archives 2010

  • Fifth, one might then speculate that from this initial adhesin by consecutive (following) mutations later developed the multimeric flagellins (building blocks of the Scourge).

    Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • It was actually great good luck that the green fluorescent protein from jellyfish was not nearly as obligately multimeric as the corals were.

    Roger Y. Tsien - Interview 2008

  • So that the secretion is not it impair its function, one must postulate with Matzke that the monomeric adhesins aggregate into a multimeric ring on * secretion apparatus, forming a pore through which secreted proteins find their way to the outside can.

    Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • Specifically, a multimeric complex that: 1. permits passage of ions through membranes; 2. and binds a “trigger” that causes the gate to open from what is otherwise a “closed” state.

    The Panda's Thumb: May 2007 Archives 2007

  • Specifically, a multimeric complex that: 1. permits passage of ions through membranes; 2. and binds a “trigger” that causes the gate to open from what is otherwise a “closed” state.

    On the evolution of Irreducible Complexity - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • The take-home message of all this is: portions of the maize mitochondrial genome that do not normally encode any protein were shuffled, extensively, so as to cobble together an expressed gene that encodes, not just any old polypeptide, but a multimeric gated ion channel.

    On the evolution of Irreducible Complexity - The Panda's Thumb 2007

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