acidotropic

English

Etymology

acid +‎ -tropic

Adjective

acidotropic (comparative more acidotropic, superlative most acidotropic)

1. That accumulates in acidic environments
   • 2015 June 17, Jennifer Hirst et al., “Loss of AP-5 results in accumulation of aberrant endolysosomes: defining a new type of lysosomal storage disease”, in Human Molecular Genetics‎^[1], volume 24, →DOI:

     In order to investigate further the nature of the enlarged multilamellar structures in the AP-5 patient lines, we used cryo-immunoelectron microscopy and acidotropic and hydrolytic-activity-dependent fluorescent probes.