multivalency

noun

multivalency

noun

Etymology From multi- + valency.

1

The property of being multivalent.

  • The fact that the intensity of the fluorescence did not vary appreciably as the affinity of the interaction was lowered can be attributed to the multivalency of the BSA conjugates (avidity effects).2000 September 8, Gavin MacBeath, Stuart L. Schreiber, “Printing Proteins as Microarrays for High-Throughput Function Determination”, in Science, volume 289, number 5485, pages 1760–1763:
Related terms
bivalency

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