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deiodinating

deiodinating is the present participle and gerund of deiodinate.

Meaning of deiodinate

Verb

deiodinate (third-person singular simple present deiodinates, present participle deiodinating, simple past and past participle deiodinated)

  1. (transitive) To remove iodine from.
    • DIO1 protein functions as an enzyme deiodinating thyroxine (T4) to active thyroid hormone—T3 and its over-expression may be correlated with high levels of iodine turnover in the cells.2016 January 23, “Transcriptome Profiling of Caco-2 Cancer Cell Line following Treatment with Extracts from Iodine-Biofortified Lettuce ( Lactuca sativa L.)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about deiodinating

What is deiodinating the present participle and gerund of?
Deiodinating is the present participle and gerund of deiodinate.

Words near deiodinating in the dictionary

  1. deiodinase
  2. deiodinases
  3. deiodinate
  4. deiodinated
  5. deiodinates
  6. deiodinating
  7. deiodination
  8. deiodinations
  9. Deion
  10. deionisation
  11. deionisations

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