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oligohistidine

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English

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Etymology

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From oligo- +‎ histidine.

Noun

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oligohistidine (plural oligohistidines)

  1. An oligomer of histidine
    • 2015 November 26, “A Versatile Strategy for Production of Membrane Proteins with Diverse Topologies: Application to Investigation of Bacterial Homologues of Human Divalent Metal Ion and Nucleoside Transporters”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      For example, attachment of oligohistidine tags to the periplasmic termini of membrane proteins often interferes with folding and drastically impairs expression in Escherichia coli.