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  • verb chemistry To react together to form an oligomer

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Examples

  • Another dense layer of complexity is added by the fact that GPCRs have been found to dimerize and oligomerize.

    Research Blogging - All Topics - English The Curious Wavefunction, The Curious Wavefunction 2010

  • Firstly, NAIP proteins are known to homo-oligomerize via their NBD

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mark T. Romanish et al. 2009

  • Soucie EL, Dlugosz PJ, Cruz-Aguado JA, Penn LZ, et al. (2005) Bax forms multispanning monomers that oligomerize to permeabilize membranes during apoptosis.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

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