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extracytosolic

extracytosolic adjective: outside the cytosol.

Adjective

extracytosolic (not comparable)

  1. Outside the cytosol
    • Albumin receptors megalin and cubilin both possess long extracytosolic domain floating in the urinary space.2015 October 15, “Akt Links Insulin Signaling to Albumin Endocytosis in Proximal Tubule Epithelial Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of extracytosolic

From extra- + cytosolic.

Questions about extracytosolic

What does extracytosolic mean?
Extracytosolic means outside the cytosol.
What part of speech is extracytosolic?
Extracytosolic is an adjective.

Words near extracytosolic in the dictionary

  1. extracystic
  2. extracytoplasmatic
  3. extracytoplasmatically
  4. extracytoplasmic
  5. extracytoplasmically
  6. extracytosolic
  7. extradecisional
  8. extradentary
  9. extradenticle
  10. extradepartmental
  11. extradepartmentally

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