Definition of "hexamer" [hexamer]

• An oligomer having six subunits. (noun)

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• "The human telomere is a hexamer TTAGGG repeated thousands of times. and"
• "This insulin hexamer corresponds with the unit cell in the rhombohedral crystals first investigated and is the asymmetric unit in the monoclinic form which appears in the presence of phenol."
• "The weight for hexamer 1 is on the Y axis, for hexamer 2 is held constant at a value of 1, and for hexamer 3 is on the X axis."