Meanings
adjectiveintercalative (not comparable)
- not comparableThat leads to intercalation
It has been proposed that the methyl group of 5-methylcytosine allows increased intercalation of BPDE at methylated CpG sites and that this increase in BPDE intercalative binding subsequently results in increased covalent interaction [65,66] .
2015, Jill E. Kucab et al., “TP53 mutations induced by BPDE in Xpa-WT and Xpa-Null human TP53 knock-in (Hupki) mouse embryo fibroblasts”, in Mutation Research, volume 773, →DOI
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