ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Flox

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /flɔks/ · Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Flox is a verb meaning (molecular biology) To sandwich a DNA sequence between two recombinase binding sequences such as "loxP".

Meaning

(molecular biology) To sandwich a DNA sequence between two recombinase binding sequences such as "loxP".

More Meanings

  1. (astronautics, transitive, dated) To add fluorine to liquid-oxygen rocket fuel.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Flox.

Example Sentences

Technically, the main problems encountered are in floxing the target gene.
It is to be tried in the so-called floxed Atlas, with the usual kerosene type fuel.
In order to do this, the gene to knock out must first be floxed by homologous recombination.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include deflox, linker, lipotransfect, bioflocculate, align, hybridize.

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