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acidotropic

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Etymology

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From acid +‎ -tropic.

Adjective

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acidotropic (comparative more acidotropic, superlative most acidotropic)

  1. That accumulates in acidic environments
    • 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[1], volume 24, →DOI:
      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.