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What is a subunit?

What is a subunit? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any subdivision of a larger unit
  2. (biochemistry) A protein subunit
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Residues in close physical proximity to those of a subunit encoded by another genome are clearly functionally important.
No subunit aims at self-sufficiency, but seeks rather to exchange the products of its own activities with those of others.
Phage gene 46 encodes one subunit of a putative exonuclease that is thought to be directly involved in recombination and recombinational repair.
Should a colony containing more than one queen be separated into subunits, any subunit containing a queen can become independent over time.
We observed subunit dissociation directly in excess vitamin D binding protein to sequester monomers and preclude association reactions.
The holoenzymes of these consist of a conserved catalytic subunit and one or more regulatory subunits.

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