biolayer

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

bio- +‎ layer

Noun[edit]

biolayer (plural biolayers)

  1. A layer of biological material.
    • 1996, Eliot Epstein, The Science of Composting, page 433:
      For a biological filter bed, he suggested that the constituent particles be surrounded by a wet biolayer.
    • 2015 August 6, “Weak Interactions between Salmonella enterica FlhB and Other Flagellar Export Apparatus Proteins Govern Type III Secretion Dynamics”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Using a type of optical biosensing, biolayer interferometry (BLI)[23 ], and analytical ultracentrifugation, the present study was able to address oligomerization of full-length, membrane integrated FlhB as well as the complex kinetic interactions of FlhB and its cytoplasmic domain with other T3S apparatus proteins.