Homomeric

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A substance which is made out of any number of identical products or molecules.

e.g. A homomeric peptide = glutathione A peptide which is made up of only a single type of amino acid subunit; e.g., alanylalanylalanine

ALA-ALA-ALA

e.g. A homomeric channel = α7-Nicotinic receptor channel can be made from 5 α nicotinic subunits and is therefore said to be homomeric