ScienceAugust 13, 2026

eluted

ee-LOO-tud

Definition

To have been removed from an adsorbent material, such as a chromatography column, by washing with a solvent.

Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'elutus', the past participle of 'eluere', meaning 'to wash out'. It entered English in the late 17th century specifically as a chemical term for extracting substances using solvents.

In the news

In this study, proteins were eluted from minichromosomes to isolate and analyze the specific DNA sequences bound by GCN4. This process allows researchers to identify the targets the protein binds to in a cellular environment.

Nucleosomes and IDRs suppress promiscuous GCN4 binding on minichromosomes

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Nature

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