PARP
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See also: parp
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]PARP (countable and uncountable, plural PARPs)
- (biology) Initialism of polyADP-ribose polymerase.
- 2009, Dana Inbar-Rozensal, “A selective eradication of human nonhereditary breast cancer cells by phenanthridine-derived polyADP-ribose polymerase inhibitors”, in Breast Cancer Research:
- In the chromatin, polyADP-ribosylation apparently regulates the interaction of PARPs and their substrates with protein partners and DNA.