any of several or many copies (of a book, document, record, etc)
adjective
2.
involving many copies
3. (of a plasmid or nucleic acid sequence)
found in multiple copies in a cell or genome
This multicopy insertion element has been detected in fecal samples and intestinaltissue cultures.
Examples of 'multicopy' in a sentence
multicopy
In animals, histone proteins are provided by the expression of multicopy replication-dependent histone genes.
Pettitt Jonathan, Whitelaw Sandra, Keall Rebecca, Müller Berndt 2007, 'Histone gene expression and histone mRNA 3' end structure in Caenorhabditis elegans',BMC Molecular Biologyhttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2199/8/51. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We then validate three novel predicted target-replacer gene pairs in new multicopy suppression experiments.
Matthew A Oberhardt, Raphy Zarecki, Leah Reshef, Fangfang Xia, Miquel Duran-Frigola,Rachel Schreiber, Christopher S Henry, Nir Ben-Tal, Daniel J Dwyer, Uri Gophna, EytanRuppin 2016, 'Systems-Wide Prediction of Enzyme Promiscuity Reveals a New Underground AlternativeRoute for Pyridoxal 5'-Phosphate Production in E. coli.', PLoS Computational Biologyhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4731195?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Our findings indicate the complexity of integration of physical, genetic, and cytogenetic mapping data for multicopy gene families in plants.
Olga Y. Yurkevich, Ilya V. Kirov, Nadezhda L. Bolsheva, Olga A. Rachinskaya, ZoyaE. Grushetskaya, Svyatoslav A. Zoschuk, Tatiana E. Samatadze, Marina V. Bogdanova,Valentina A. Lemesh, Alexandra V. Amosova, Olga V. Muravenko 2017, 'Integration of Physical, Genetic, and Cytogenetic Mapping Data for Cellulose Synthase(CesA) Genes in Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.)', Frontiers in Plant Sciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2017.01467/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In animals with multicopy reporters, the cell-specific expression pattern was also stereotyped, but distinct, and somewhat more variable.
Alexander R. Mendenhall, Patricia M. Tedesco, Bryan Sands, Thomas E. Johnson, RogerBrent 2015, 'Single Cell Quantification of Reporter Gene Expression in Live Adult Caenorhabditiselegans Reveals Reproducible Cell-Specific Expression Patterns and Underlying BiologicalVariation', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0124289. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)