trifunctionalize

English

Etymology

From trifunctional +‎ -ize.

Verb

trifunctionalize (third-person singular simple present trifunctionalizes, present participle trifunctionalizing, simple past and past participle trifunctionalized)

1. (organic chemistry) To make trifunctional.
   • 2020 July 3, Kin Man Au, Steven I. Park, Andrew Z. Wang, “Trispecific natural killer cell nanoengagers for targeted chemoimmunotherapy”, in Science Advances, volume 6, number 27, →DOI, page 4:

     Next, we investigated how the EGFR-targeted trifunctionalized nanoengagers improve NK cell cytotoxicity against the firefly luciferase–expressing HT29 cells (HT29-Luc2).