Meanings
adjectivemultimerizing (not comparable)
- not comparableThat forms multimers
MUC2 is a highly glycosylated, multimerizing protein and the main structural mucus component, creating net-like sheets that stack upon each other after secretion, thus forming a sieving mucus structure that is normally impenetrable to bacteria [11 ,14 ].
2015 July 11, “The Goblet Cell Protein Clca1 (Alias mClca3 or Gob-5) Is Not Required for Intestinal Mucus Synthesis, Structure and Barrier Function in Naive or DSS-Challenged Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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