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tetramer

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tet·ra·mer (ttr-mr)
n.
A polymer consisting of four identical monomers.

tetra·meric (-mrk) adj.

tetramer
[tet′rəmer]
Etymology: Gk, tetra + meros, part
something that is composed of four parts, such as a protein composed of four polypeptide subunits.


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Disease is caused by insufficient functional hemoglobin, as well as tetramer formation of the unaffected globin chain.
T4 PNK is a tetramer in vivo, whereas mammalian PNK is a monomer (Midgley and Murray, 1985 and Mani et al.
The molar distribution of functional groups (Table 2) allows us to calculate that statistically more frequently in the mixture of prepolymers there can be met the tetramer with the determined ratio of op- to p,p'-methylenes (2/1) and with the predominant substitution with ortho HM groups.
 
 
 
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