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biotinylating

biotinylating is the present participle and gerund of biotinylate.

Meaning of biotinylate

Verb

biotinylate (third-person singular simple present biotinylates, present participle biotinylating, simple past and past participle biotinylated)

  1. To attach a biotin residue to a biological macromolecule in order to label it
    • After 30 min, the reaction was supplemented to a final volume of 25 μL with 5 units of Klenow fragment (3′→5′ exo-) DNA polymerase (NEB, USA) and 5 μM of biotin-14-dUTP, dATP, dGTP and dCTP and incubated at 37 °C for another 30 min to fill in the overhangs and biotinylate the fragmented DNA.2015 July 11, Eugene J. H. Wee, Thu Ha Ngo, Matt Trau, “Colorimetric detection of both total genomic and loci-specific DNA methylation from limited DNA inputs”, in Clinical Epigenetics, volume 7, →DOI

Questions about biotinylating

What is biotinylating the present participle and gerund of?
Biotinylating is the present participle and gerund of biotinylate.

Words near biotinylating in the dictionary

  1. biotins
  2. biotinyl
  3. biotinylate
  4. biotinylated
  5. biotinylates
  6. biotinylating
  7. biotinylation
  8. biotinylations
  9. biotinyllysine
  10. biotinyls
  11. biotissue

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