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tetramer

[′te·trə·mər]
(organic chemistry)
A polymer that results from the union of four identical monomers; for example, the tetramer C8H8 forms from union of four molecules of C2H2.
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The loss of all four alpha genes is termed Hb Barts hydrops fetalis (Hb Barts is a tetramer of fetal gamma globin chains).
This is the first study to report the presence of (-)-epicatechin, (+)-catechin, chlorogenic acid, and procyanidins represented in dimers, trimers, and tetramers in the tejocote (Crataegus pubescens) fruits in important concentrations in order to consider such fruit as a potential source of extraction of such polyphenols to be used in the food or nutraceutical industries.
The findings showed that K-80003 creates a configuration that locks the tetramer into a tight ball, hiding all of its binding sites so it cannot trigger the PI3K pathway.
Our laboratory has characterized a family of peptides know as Peptide Inhibitor of Complement C1 (PIC1) that inhibit the classical pathway of complement by binding the initiator molecule C1q and inhibiting activation of the cognate serine protease tetramer C1s-C1r-C1r-C1s that is normally associated with C1q [7, 8].
A user might want to further refine the query results to find out if those CD8+ T cell epitopes have been shown to work as tetramers or if tetramers have been made and shown to be effective.
The excess b-chains form unstable tetramers, which are characterized by abnormal oxygen dissociation curves.2,12,13
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