verb
- to purify together with something else; to undergo purification simultaneously or jointly
Usage: technical; chemistry/biology context; third-person singular present tense of copurify
Examples
- The enzyme copurifies with the substrate during the chromatography process.
- When the two proteins copurify, it suggests they form a stable complex.
- The contaminant copurifies alongside the target protein, making separation difficult.
- In the experiment, the marker gene copurifies with the desired trait through multiple generations.
- The antibody copurifies with its antigen under these buffer conditions.