How to pronounce “trimer” in English

And the spike trimers, or enveloped timers, on that virus bind to the host cell.

You can't force the trimer to fall apart.

Because what I've showed you is the envelope trimer here, and this is-- well, it has three subunits.

And I'll call them either spikes or enveloped trimers.

Well, the GP120 part of this trimer binds to the host receptor CD4.

So if you enlarge that spike right there, it's a trimer, meaning there are three identical copies of it.

So we're looking-- through structural biology, we can actually watch the trimer opening.

But these little things here, these white things, are the parts that allow it to enter the cell, the spike or the spike trimer, as I've called it.

And then I'm going to be talking about these what I'll call enveloped trimers.