TRIMER (trimer)

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Irregular inflected form: trimer   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does trimer mean? 

• TRIMER (noun)
  The noun TRIMER has 1 sense:

1. a polymer (or a molecule of a polymer) consisting of three identical monomers

  Familiarity information: TRIMER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRIMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A polymer (or a molecule of a polymer) consisting of three identical monomers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("trimer" is a kind of...):

polymer (a naturally occurring or synthetic compound consisting of large molecules made up of a linked series of repeated simple monomers)

 Context examples 

In Nature, an NIAID-based team described the atomic-level structure of the entire pre-fusion Env trimer.

(The Structure and Dynamics of HIV Surface Spikes, NIH)

Due to alternative splicing, differential posttranslational modifications, optional binding to GHBP or alpha2-macroglobulin, and potential proteolytic processing, circulating GH shows great heterogeneity as a disulfide-linked or non-covalently associated monomer, dimer, trimer, tetramer, or pentamer in homopolymeric and heteropolymeric combinations.

(hGH Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

In a series of experiments, they showed that FluA-20 can reach into an otherwise inaccessible part of the three-part HA trimer molecule and cause it to fall apart, thus preventing the spread of virus from cell to cell.

(Human antibody reveals hidden vulnerability in influenza virus, National Institutes of Health)