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methylesterify

methylesterify verb: to subject to methylesterification.

Verb

methylesterify (third-person singular simple present methylesterifies, present participle methylesterifying, simple past and past participle methylesterified)

  1. (transitive) To subject to methylesterification.
    • Pectins undergo methylesterification, which affects their cellular roles. Pectin methyltransferases are believed to methylesterify pectins in the Golgi, but little is known about their identity.2015 April, Sang-Jin Kim, Michael A. Held, Starla Zemelis, Curtis Wilkerson, Federica Brandizzi, “CGR2 and CGR3 have critical overlapping roles in pectin methylesterification and plant growth in...
    Antonyms:
    de-methylesterify

Antonyms of methylesterify

  • de-methylesterify

Forms of methylesterify

third-person singular presentmethylesterifies
present participlemethylesterifying
past participlemethylesterified
pastmethylesterified
alternative formmethyl-esterify

Origin of methylesterify

From methyl ester + -ify.

Questions about methylesterify

What does methylesterify mean?
Methylesterify means to subject to methylesterification.
What part of speech is methylesterify?
Methylesterify is a verb.
What is the past tense of methylesterify?
The past tense of methylesterify is methylesterified.

Words near methylesterify in the dictionary

  1. methylesterase
  2. methylesterases
  3. methylesterification
  4. methylesterified
  5. methylesterifies
  6. methylesterify
  7. methylesterifying
  8. methylestradiol
  9. methylestrenolone
  10. methylethylketone
  11. methyleugenol

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