A pentamer is an entity composed of five subunits. In chemistry, it applies to molecules made of five monomers. In biochemistry, it applies to macromolecules...

in electron micrographs, it was inferred that IgM usually occurs as a "pentamer", i.e., a polymer composed of five “monomers” [(μL)2]5, and was originally...

(as with IgA), tetramers with four Ig units (like teleost fish IgM), or pentamers with five Ig units (like shark IgW or mammalian IgM, which occasionally...

denoting that number, with the ending -mer: thus dimer, trimer, tetramer, pentamer, and hexamer refer to molecules with two, three, four, five, and six units...

10-pentaoxapentasilecane Other names Cyclopentamethicone Cyclic dimethylsiloxane pentamer D5 D5 2,2,4,4,6,6,8,8,10,10-Decamethylcyclopentasiloxane Identifiers CAS...

part 4, 5, 6 or 8 times around the axis – referred to as tetramerism, pentamerism, hexamerism and octamerism, respectively. Such organisms exhibit no left...

be akin to azobenzene (A), but chemical studies published in 2005 suggest that salvarsan is actually a mixture of the trimer (B) and the pentamer (C)....

numerical prefixes such as "monomer", "dimer", "trimer", "tetramer", "pentamer", etc., or English cardinal numbers, "one-mer", "two-mer", "three-mer"...

Others may make blood too viscous to flow smoothly (usually with IgM pentamer macroglobulins), a phenomenon known as Waldenström macroglobulinemia.[citation...

h steps from the edge of a pentamer, turning 60 degrees counterclockwise, then taking k steps to get to the next pentamer. The triangulation number T...

in the gas phase, resulting in gross deviations from the ideal gas law. Pentamer formation of water and alcohols in apolar solvents. Hydrogen bonding plays...

B (mol. wt. 7700 Da)—and is one of the AB5 toxins. The B subunit is a pentamer that binds to specific glycolipids on the host cell, specifically globotriaosylceramide...

vertices, are curved. The same protein may act as the subunit of both the pentamers and hexamers or they may be composed of different proteins. Prolate This...

specificity pentamers may also be commissioned. Pentamers are currently used in research by academia, industry and clinicians, and research using pentamers has...

15-Crown-5 is a crown ether with the formula (C2H4O)5. It is a cyclic pentamer of ethylene oxide that forms complex with various cations, including sodium...

five, six or even more subunits are known as dimers, trimers, tetramers, pentamers, hexamers, and so on. Yaqoob, Tahir (2011). Exoplanets and Alien Solar...

icosahedral structure consisting of 360 VP1 molecules organized into 72 pentamers. VP1 molecules possess a surface binding site that interacts with sialic...

1 = monomer 2 = dimer 3 = trimer 4 = tetramer 5 = pentamer 6 = hexamer 7 = heptamer 8 = octamer 9 = nonamer 10 = decamer 11 = undecamer 12 = dodecamer...

made up of pentameric protein. Synthetic pentameric proteins include MHC pentamers, a type of MHC multimer, comprising five peptide-MHC complexes associated...

extremity. Five is the number of appendages on most starfish, which exhibit pentamerism. 5 is the ASCII code of the Enquiry character, which is abbreviated to...

RSi(CH3)2OLi RSi(CH3)2OLi + H2O → RSi(CH3)2OH + LiOH The LD50 for the related pentamer (D5) is >50 g/kg in rats. Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4) Decamethylcyclopentasiloxane...

−CH2CH2O−. Important members of this series are the tetramer (n = 4), the pentamer (n = 5), and the hexamer (n = 6). The term "crown" refers to the resemblance...

inclusion of an α and a β subunit. The most common GABAA receptor is a pentamer comprising two α's, two β's, and a γ (α2β2γ). In neurons themselves, the...

a gynoecium with a superior ovary (they are therefore referred to as pentamers and tetracyclic). The stamens are epipetalous and are typically present...

undergo a conformational change, inducing a conformational change in the pentamer, causing the ion-channel to open. Although autosomal dominant inheritance...

ion channel is the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. It consists of a pentamer of protein subunits (typically ααβγδ), with two binding sites for acetylcholine...

yet known. These toxins consist of an AB5 multimer structure, in which a pentamer of B chains has a membrane-binding function and an A chain is needed for...

Major capsid protein L1 pentamer, Human papillomavirus 11...

contains three subunits, a tetramer if it contains four subunits, and a pentamer if it contains five subunits, and so forth. The subunits are frequently...

plausible conditions was reported in 2009; a purine base, adenine, is merely a pentamer of hydrogen cyanide, and it happens that this particular base is used as...