dimerize

American  

[dahy-muh-rahyz] / ˈdaɪ məˌraɪz /

especially British, dimerise

verb (used with or without object)

Chemistry.

dimerized, dimerizing

1. to form (adimer ), as in polymerization.

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dimerize British  

/ ˈdaɪməˌraɪz /

verb

1. to react or cause to react to form a dimer

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Other Word Forms

• dimerization noun

Etymology

Origin of dimerize

1850–55; back formation from dimerization; dimer, -ize

Example Sentences

They found that ZAK interacts with specific ribosomal proteins, causing particular regions of ZAK to dimerize, meaning that two copies of the protein pair up.

From Science Daily

"In the presence of Nodal, however, the chaperones are released, and Nodal can then dimerize with Vg1."

From Science Daily

Moreover, vasodilation of blood vessels isolated from a mouse model of sepsis — endotoxaemic mice, in which the animals are exposed to bacteria-derived toxins — was suppressed when the animals expressed a mutant version of PKG1α that could not dimerize at Cys 42 on exposure to oxidants.

From Nature

Although Pgp must undergo large amplitude movements that dimerize the NBDs to enable ATP hydrolysis, the observation of apo-like distance distributions in the presence of excess ATP/Mg2+ demonstrates that stabilization of the outward-facing conformation requires ATP hydrolysis.

From Nature

Step 1: conformational sampling by ATP-bound Pgp enables the NBD to dimerize following the binding of substrate.

From Nature