QUADRUPLEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quadruplex mean? 

• QUADRUPLEX (adjective)
  The adjective QUADRUPLEX has 1 sense:

1. having four units or components

  Familiarity information: QUADRUPLEX used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUADRUPLEX (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having four units or components

Synonyms:

four-fold; fourfold; quadruple; quadruplex; quadruplicate

Context example:

quadruplex wire

Similar:

multiple (having or involving or consisting of more than one part or entity or individual)

 Context examples 

A carbazole derivative (3,6-bis[2-(1-methylpyridinium)vinyl]carbazole diiodide) that selectively targets to the G-quadruplex DNA structure, used as a fluorescent probe for cancer cytological diagnosis and with potential antitumor activity.

(G-Quadruplex Stabilizer BMVC, NCI Thesaurus)

The BMVC/G-quadruplex complexes also interfere with the activity of telomerase, which is highly active in tumor cells and plays a key role in tumorigenesis while expressed at very low levels in most somatic cells.

(G-Quadruplex Stabilizer BMVC, NCI Thesaurus)

G-quadruplex stabilizer BMVC, preferentially uptaken by cancer cells, binds to and stabilize the telomeric G-quadruplex structure at the end of DNA; when visualized with fluorescent imaging device, BMVC emits bright fluorescent light and can be used to differentiate tumor cells from normal cells.

(G-Quadruplex Stabilizer BMVC, NCI Thesaurus)