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antimutator

antimutator noun: a strain of bacteria that has a reduced rate of mutation when compared to the wild strain.

Noun

antimutator (plural antimutators)

  1. A strain of bacteria that has a reduced rate of mutation when compared to the wild strain
    • The ubiquitous nature of Nudix enzymes arises from the versatility of the Nudix fold which has been evolutionarily repurposed to hydrolyze a plurality of substrates as in the ADPRase, A4pAase, CoAase, mRNA decapping, and antimutator families [1, 5, 8 –16 ].2015 November 3, “Structural and Enzymatic Characterization of a Nucleoside Diphosphate Sugar Hydrolase from Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of antimutator

pluralantimutators

Origin of antimutator

From anti- + mutator.

Questions about antimutator

What does antimutator mean?
Antimutator means a strain of bacteria that has a reduced rate of mutation when compared to the wild strain.
What part of speech is antimutator?
Antimutator is a noun.
What is the plural of antimutator?
The plural of antimutator is antimutators.

Words near antimutator in the dictionary

  1. antimutagenicity
  2. antimutagenics
  3. antimutagens
  4. antimutant
  5. antimutation
  6. antimutator
  7. antimutators
  8. antimutiny
  9. antimyasthenic
  10. antimycin
  11. antimycins

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