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mismethylate

mismethylate verb: to methylate incorrectly.

Verb

mismethylate (third-person singular simple present mismethylates, present participle mismethylating, simple past and past participle mismethylated)

  1. To methylate incorrectly.
    • We did find that one of tbe Salmonella genes, cbiF, was capable of 'mismethylating' precorrin-3 at the 1 l-position, ie out of the natural order, to yield a tetramethyl pyrrocorphin1994, A. Ian Scott, “The discovery of nature's pathway to vitamin B12. A 25 year Odyssey”, in Tetrahedron, volume 50, number 47
    • CysG is a homodimer with a subunit Mᵣ of 50,000, which, in addition to catalyzing methylation at C-2 and C-7, can also mismethylate precorrin 2 at C-12 to afford a trimethylpyrrocorphin derailment product.2012, Karl Kadish, Kevin M. Smith, Roger Guilard, The Porphyrin Handbook, page 217

Examples of mismethylate in a sentence

  • M. jannaschii Nep mismethylates T-arm resembling RNAs.2012, Jan Philip Wurm, Marco Griese, Ute Bahr, Martin Held, Alexander Heckel, Michael Karas, Jörg Soppa, Jens Wöhnert, “Identification of...
  • Biosynthesis of Mismethylated Analogs of Cobalamin2015, Robert A. Meyers, Synthetic Biology, page 412:

Forms of mismethylate

third-person singular presentmismethylates
present participlemismethylating
past participlemismethylated
pastmismethylated

Origin of mismethylate

From mis- + methylate.

Questions about mismethylate

What does mismethylate mean?
Mismethylate means to methylate incorrectly.
How do you use mismethylate in a sentence?
M. jannaschii Nep mismethylates T-arm resembling RNAs.
What part of speech is mismethylate?
Mismethylate is a verb.
What is the past tense of mismethylate?
The past tense of mismethylate is mismethylated.

Words near mismethylate in the dictionary

  1. mismetallations
  2. mismeter
  3. mismetered
  4. mismetering
  5. mismeters
  6. mismethylate
  7. mismethylated
  8. mismethylates
  9. mismethylating
  10. mismethylation
  11. mismetre

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