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co-receptor

co-receptor is the alternative form of coreceptor.

Meaning of coreceptor

Noun

coreceptor (plural coreceptors)

  1. (molecular biology) A cell surface receptor that binds a signaling molecule in addition to a primary receptor in order to facilitate ligand recognition and initiate a biological process, such as entry of a pathogen into a host cell

Forms of co-receptor

pluralco-receptors

Questions about co-receptor

What is co-receptor the alternative form of?
Co-receptor is the alternative form of coreceptor.

Words near co-receptor in the dictionary

  1. co-purifies
  2. co-purify
  3. co-purifying
  4. co-r.e.
  5. co-randomization
  6. co-receptor
  7. co-receptors
  8. co-recursive
  9. co-recursively enumerable
  10. co-register
  11. co-registered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: co-receptor (page history and authors); coreceptor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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