acidotropic

adj

acidotropic

adj

Etymology From acid + -tropic.

1

That accumulates in acidic environments.

  • In order to investigate further the nature of the enlarged multilamellar structures in the AP-5 patient lines, we used cryo-immunoelectron microscopy and acidotropic and hydrolytic-activity-dependent fluorescent probes.2015 June 17, Jennifer Hirst et al., “Loss of AP-5 results in accumulation of aberrant endolysosomes: defining a new type of lysosomal storage disease”, in Human Molecular Genetics, volume 24, →DOI:

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