mutagenizev.
/ˈmjuːtədʒᵻnʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈmjudədʒəˌnaɪz/ Biology.
transitive. To treat with a mutagen; to produce mutations in (a cell, organism, etc.) by this means. Also intransitive.
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1966 Virology 29 339/1 The mutants were produced by mutagenizing with hydroxylamine.
1972 Nature 18 Feb. 363/3 Instead of mutagenizing stocks of transforming virus..[they] took mouse 3T3 cells..and..selected for cells which behave at 32° C as typical transformants.
1988 Mouse News Let. Nov. 119 A strategy for generating mutants with a precisely predetermined phenotype is to in vitro mutagenize a cloned gene.
1990 EMBO Jrnl. 9 2679/1 The region of the B2AR between residues 76 and 83..was mutagenized by a saturation mutagenesis technique.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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