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adenylations

adenylations is the plural of adenylation.

Meaning of adenylation

Noun

adenylation (plural adenylations)

  1. Any reaction or process that forms an adenylate but especially such a posttranslational modification to a protein.
    • The assay for adenylation of aminoglycoside drugs by cell extract (actually aminoglycoside-dependent conversion of radioactive label from ATP into a form retained by phosphocellulose paper) was a modification of the method of Yamada et al.1970 January, David H. Smith, “Resistance Factor-Mediated Spectinomycin Resistance”, in Infection and Immunity, volume 1, number 1, page 120

Questions about adenylations

What is adenylations the plural of?
Adenylations is the plural of adenylation.

Words near adenylations in the dictionary

  1. adenylate cyclase
  2. adenylated
  3. adenylates
  4. adenylating
  5. adenylation
  6. adenylations
  7. adenylcyclase
  8. adenylic
  9. adenylic acid
  10. adenylosuccinase
  11. adenylosuccinate

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