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- noun chemistry, biochemistry A
tetramer , especially a biologically active one, derived from two or more different (but similar)monomers
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IL10RA and IL10RB, encoding the IL10R1 and IL10R2 proteins, respectively, which form a heterotetramer to make up the interleukin-10 receptor.
New England Journal of Medicine Glocker, E.-O., Kotlarz, D., Boztug, K., Gertz, E. 2009
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(caspase-8, -9) at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme in the form of a heterotetramer.
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