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Etymology edit

de- +‎ immunize

Verb edit

deimmunize (third-person singular simple present deimmunizes, present participle deimmunizing, simple past and past participle deimmunized)

  1. To remove immune properties from.
    • 2015 June 17, Kristina Blazanovic et al., “Structure-based redesign of lysostaphin yields potent antistaphylococcal enzymes that evade immune cell surveillance”, in Molecular Therapy. Methods & Clinical Development[1], volume 2, →DOI:
      We anticipated that a globally deimmunized catalytic domain would have broad utility as a fusion partner to any number of different bacterial targeting moieties, including both native and engineered cell wall binding domains.