Protomer vs. Oligomer

Protomernoun

(chemistry) Any prototropic tautomer.

Protomernoun

(biochemistry) Any of the subunits that constitute an oligomeric protein.

Protomernoun

Each of a number of tautomeric molecules which differ from each other only in the position of a proton; a prototropic tautomer.

Protomernoun

Each of the protein subunits of which an oligomeric protein is built up.

Protomer

In structural biology, a protomer is the structural unit of an oligomeric protein. It is the smallest unit composed of at least two different protein chains that form a larger hetero-oligomer by association of two or more copies of this unit.

Oligomernoun

(chemistry) A compound intermediate between a monomer and a polymer, normally having a specified number of units between about five and a hundred.

Oligomernoun

A molecule composed of a small number of linked monomer units; a short polymer; - compounds called oligomers have less than one hundred monomer units and usually less than thirty. Oligomers of increasing length are called dimer, trimer, tetramer, pentamer, hexamer, heptamer, octamer, nonamer, decamer, etc. In colloquial laboratory jargon, they may also be referred to as nine-mer, ten-mer, eleven-mer, twelve-mer, etc., especially for oligomers of greater than eight units.

Oligomernoun

a polymer whose molecules consist of relatively few repeating units.

Oligomer

In chemistry and biochemistry, an oligomer ( (listen)) is a molecule that consists of a few similar or identical repeating units which could be derived, actually or conceptually, from copies of a smaller molecule, its monomer. The name is composed from Greek elements oligo-, and -mer, .