tetramer
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tetramer (plural tetramers)
(chemistry) An oligomer having four subunits
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First, Fe SODs consist of two species, one homodimer (containing 1-2 g Fe) and one tetramer (containing 2-4 g Fe).
For MCHC (mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration) the conversion factor 0.155, which uses the tetramer weight of 64,500 Da, is more common.
Biochemical data and structural data suggest that retroviral IN functions as a tetramer (dimer-of-dimers).
The H2A/H2B dimer binds onto the H3/H4 tetramer due to interactions between H4 and H2B, which include the formation of a hydrophobic cluster.
The H2A-H2B dimers and H3-H4 tetramer also show pseudodyad symmetry.
The histone octamer is formed by a central H3/H4 tetramer sandwiched between two H2A/H2B dimers.