acidotropic

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adjective

That accumulates in acidic environments.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectiveacidotropic (comparative more acidotropic, superlative most acidotropic)

comparative more acidotropic · superlative most acidotropic

  1. That accumulates in acidic environments.

    In order to investigate further the nature of the enlarged multilamellar structures in the AP-5 patient lines, we used cryo-immunoelectron microscopy and acidotropic and hydrolytic-activity-dependent fluorescent probes.

    2015 June 17, Jennifer Hirst et al., “Loss of AP-5 results in accumulation of aberrant endolysosomes: defining a new type of lysosomal storage disease”, in Human Molecular Genetics, volume 24, →DOI

Origin

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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