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decahistidine en · NOUN

Etymology

From deca- + histidine.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) An oligopeptide consisting of ten histidine moieties
  2. (uncountable) A section of ten histidine amino acids added to a protein (such a section does not exist in nature)
    • We also explored using a vector (pNIC-Bio2) appending a decahistidine tag because, in theory, this tag would offer higher affinity immobilization to an NTA chip in surface plasmon resonance (SPR), which could facilitate acquiring more accurate kinetic binding data for the Fabs. 2015 October 6, “Optimizing Production of Antigens and Fabs in the Context of Generating Recombinant Antibodies to Human Proteins”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: