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Medical Definition of Heterodimer

1. A dimer in which the two subunits are different. One of the best known examples is tubulin that is found as an _ tubulin/_ tubulin dimer. Heterodimers are relatively common and it may be that the arrangement has the advantage that, for example: several different binding subunits may interact with a conserved signalling subunit. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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