Definition of Polylysine
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Polylysine
1.
A polymer of lysine, it carries multiple positive charges and is used to mediate adhesion of living cells to synthetic culture substrates or of fixed cells to glass slides (for observation by fluorescence microscopy, for example).
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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