<biochemistry> A dimer in which the two subunits are different. ... One of the best known examples is tubulin that is found as an _ tubulin/_ tubulin dimer. Heterodimers are relatively common and it may be that the arrangement has the advantage that, for example: several different binding subunits may interact with a conserved signalling subu...
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A dimer in which the two subunits are different. One of the best known examples is tubulin that is found as an a -tubulin/ b -tubulin dimer. Heterodimers are relatively common, and it may be that the arrangement has the advantage that, for example, several different binding subunits may interact with a conserved signalling subunit.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: het′ĕr-ō-dī′mĕr Definitions: 1. A molecule composed of paired proteins with some amino-acid sequence variations.
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