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antiterminator

antiterminator noun: any enzyme that promotes antitermination.

Noun

antiterminator (plural antiterminators)

  1. Any enzyme that promotes antitermination
    • Our results demonstrated up-regulation of tagatose pathway genes, Leloir pathway genes, lactose-specific IIA & IIBC component encoding genes (lacF2and lacE2), and the lacT gene, encoding a transcriptional antiterminator.2015 October 3, “The Small Molecule DAM Inhibitor, Pyrimidinedione, Disrupts Streptococcus pneumoniae Biofilm Growth In Vitro”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of antiterminator

pluralantiterminators

Origin of antiterminator

From anti- + terminator.

Questions about antiterminator

What does antiterminator mean?
Antiterminator means any enzyme that promotes antitermination.
What part of speech is antiterminator?
Antiterminator is a noun.
What is the plural of antiterminator?
The plural of antiterminator is antiterminators.

Words near antiterminator in the dictionary

  1. antiterminate
  2. antiterminated
  3. antiterminates
  4. antiterminating
  5. antitermination
  6. antiterminator
  7. antiterminators
  8. antitermite
  9. antitermitic
  10. antiterritorial
  11. antiterror

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