Biarsenical

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of a group of fluorescent compounds, that contain two arsenic atoms, used to visualize proteins

    "We initially constructed a tetracysteine (PG) tagged hMC4R (hMC4R-PG) for co-transfection with a variant tetracysteine (FLN) tagged hMRAPα (hMRAPα-FLN) in order for dual detection of the tetracysteine tags by biarsenical labelling with FlAsH-EDT 2 or ReAsH-EDT 2, respectively."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Involving two arsenic atoms not-comparable

    "biarsenical labelling"

Example

More examples

"We initially constructed a tetracysteine (PG) tagged hMC4R (hMC4R-PG) for co-transfection with a variant tetracysteine (FLN) tagged hMRAPα (hMRAPα-FLN) in order for dual detection of the tetracysteine tags by biarsenical labelling with FlAsH-EDT 2 or ReAsH-EDT 2, respectively."

Etymology

From bi- + arsenical.

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