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Protein Subunits

"Protein Subunits" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Single chains of amino acids that are the units of multimeric PROTEINS. Multimeric proteins can be composed of identical or non-identical subunits. One or more monomeric subunits may compose a protomer which itself is a subunit structure of a larger assembly.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Protein Subunits" by people in this website by year, and whether "Protein Subunits" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 108 publications over 23 distinct years, with a maximum of 12 publications in 2006
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