dodecamern.
/dəʊˈdɛkəmə/ Chemistry and Biochemistry.
A compound whose molecule is formed from twelve monomers; also, a molecule of such a compound.
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1968 Biochemistry 7 2150/1 Electron microscopic examination..showed the presence of species of intermediate stages of disaggregation between intact dodecamer and monomer.
1971 Nature 25 June 495/1 At high resolution this dodecamer of six regulatory and six catalytic subunits will pose..exciting problems on the mechanism of control.
1979 Nature 4 Oct. 342/1 For Eurypelma haemocyanin, three different types of subunit are needed for the formation of a 16S hexamer, five different for a 24S dodecamer, and all seven for a stable 37S aggregate or ‘24-mer’ (which is the native form).
1983 Sci. Amer. Dec. 90 The longest DNA double helix that has yet been examined by single-crystal X-ray methods is the dodecamer CGCGAATTCGCG.
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ˌdodecaˈmeric adj.
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1968 Biochemistry 7 2153/1 The glutamine synthetase isolated from Escherichia coli exists as a dodecameric aggregate of identical subunits.
1987 Angewandte Chem. (Internat. ed.) 26 587/1 (heading) Tetrameric and dodecameric tert-butylethynyllithium; a novel aggregation principle in organolithium compounds.
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