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sphaeroplast

sphaeroplast is the alternative form of spheroplast.

Meaning of spheroplast

Noun

spheroplast (plural spheroplasts)

  1. A cell from which the cell wall has been removed
    • The localization of overexpressed TTHA1718 was then analysed by measuring 2D 1 H– 15 N HSQC spectra of spheroplasts and periplasmic extract, which were fractionated from TTHA1718-expressing 15 N-labelled cells by lysozyme-EDTA treatment using the conditions described previously 35 .2009 March 5, Daisuke Sakakibara et al., “Protein structure determination in living cells by in-cell NMR spectroscopy”, in Nature, volume 458, number 7234, →DOI

Forms of sphaeroplast

pluralsphaeroplasts

Questions about sphaeroplast

What is sphaeroplast the alternative form of?
Sphaeroplast is the alternative form of spheroplast.

Words near sphaeroplast in the dictionary

  1. sphaeronectid
  2. sphaeronectids
  3. sphaeropedunculate
  4. sphaerophorin
  5. sphaerophysine
  6. sphaeroplast
  7. sphaeroplasted
  8. sphaeroplasts
  9. sphaeropsidaceous
  10. sphaeropsocid
  11. sphaeropsocids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sphaeroplast (page history and authors); spheroplast (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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