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semisynthesize en · VERB

Etymology

From semi- + synthesize.

Meanings

1. To synthesize partially, usually by incorporating natural components.
   • The 1,241st compound that they "semisynthesized" in this way looked particularly promising. 1977, Harry Filmore Dowling, Fighting Infection: Conquests of the Twentieth Century, page 185:
   • The EPL (expressed protein ligation, also named intein-mediated protein ligation IPL) technique can be used to semisynthesize proteins from recombinant and synthetic fragments, thus extending the size and complexity of the protein targets available to chemical engineering. 2007, Marcus A. Hemminga, Lawrence Berliner, ESR Spectroscopy in Membrane Biophysics:

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