heat-labile

English

Adjective

heat-labile (comparative more heat-labile, superlative most heat-labile)

  1. Alternative form of heat labile.
    • 1966, Karina Dzintars Burda, A Study of Heat-labile Superficial Somatic Antigen of Vibrio Fetus, page 41:
      It may resemble the factor 5 in Salmonella, a heat-labile determinant on the endotoxin molecule which, because of its superficial location, blocks the agglutination reaction of the deeper heat-stable O antigens in the same way as do the Vi and K antigens.
    • 2012, Phillip Smith, Thomas MacDonald, Principles of Mucosal Immunology, page 407:
      A more complex mechanism is used by Vibrio cholerae toxin and by the homolog heat-labile enterotoxin secreted by ETEC strains.
    • 2012, Yi-Wei Tang, Charles W. Stratton, Advanced Techniques in Diagnostic Microbiology, page 474:
      A heat-labile UNG is also available that has proven to be more effective in some experiments when RNA is targeted.
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