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multimer Chem.|ˈmʌltɪmə(r)|
[f. multi- + -mer.]
An aggregate of molecules held together by relatively weak bonds, such as hydrogen bonds.
1959M. Davies in D. Hadži Hydrogen Bonding 560 The use of the term ‘polymer’ for the associated molecules formed from stable monomers by hydrogen bonding, etc., seems objectionable, and it is suggested that the equivalent, self-explanatory term ‘multimer’ be used in these circumstances. 1967Arch. Biochem. & Biophysics CXX. 158 (heading) Studies on protein multimers. 1972H. -G. Elias in M. B. Huglin Light Scattering from Polymer Solutions ix. 399 A unimer of molecular weight MI will multimerize to a multimer with a degree of multimerization N∼ .
Hence multiˈmeric a.; also ˌmultimeriˈzation, the formation of multimers; ˈmultimerize (or mulˈtimerize) v. intr., to associate to form a multimer or multimers; ˈmultimerized, ˈmultimerizing ppl. adjs.
1971Arch. Biochem. & Biophysics CXLII. 329/1 The experimental basis for supposing that high pressure disaggregates multimeric proteins is already well established. 1972H. -G. Elias in M. B. Huglin Light Scattering from Polymer Solutions ix. 451 It is believed that multimerizations occur preferentially in thermodynamically poor solvents as expressed for polyvinyl chloride solutions. Ibid. 398 For the multimerized material, we shall use the following nomenclature. Ibid. 400 In light scattering studies of multimerizing solutes, many different concentration dependences of the reciprocal apparent weight average molecular weights may be observed. Ibid. 441 Cellulose nitrates multimerize in ethanol at temperatures above 20° C. 1973Microbios VII. 53 (heading) The multimeric nature of NADPH-nitrate reductase from Aspergillus nidulans. 1973Nature 24 Aug. 528/3 Chapter 9 deals with the problems of aggregation or multimerization. |