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glypican

glypican noun: any of a family of heparan sulfate proteoglycans, anchored to the cell surface via a covalent linkage to glycosylphosphatidylinositol.

Noun

glypican (plural glypicans)

  1. Any of a family of heparan sulfate proteoglycans, anchored to the cell surface via a covalent linkage to glycosylphosphatidylinositol.

Forms of glypican

pluralglypicans

Questions about glypican

What does glypican mean?
Glypican means any of a family of heparan sulfate proteoglycans, anchored to the cell surface via a covalent linkage to glycosylphosphatidylinositol.
What part of speech is glypican?
Glypican is a noun.
What is the plural of glypican?
The plural of glypican is glypicans.

Words near glypican in the dictionary

  1. glyphosate
  2. glyphosates
  3. glyphs
  4. glypiation
  5. glypiations
  6. glypican
  7. glypicans
  8. glyprothiazol
  9. glyptal
  10. glyptals
  11. glyptic

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