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spheroplast

spheroplast noun: a cell from which the cell wall has been removed.

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 spheroplast

pluralspheroplasts

Origin of spheroplast

From sphero- + -plast.

Words formed from spheroplast

Questions about spheroplast

What does spheroplast mean?
Spheroplast means a cell from which the cell wall has been removed.
What part of speech is spheroplast?
Spheroplast is a noun.
What is the plural of spheroplast?
The plural of spheroplast is spheroplasts.

Words near spheroplast in the dictionary

  1. spherophakic
  2. spherophysine
  3. spheroplasm
  4. spheroplasmic
  5. spheroplasms
  6. spheroplast
  7. spheroplasted
  8. spheroplastic
  9. spheroplasting
  10. spheroplasts
  11. spheropolygon

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