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mismethylating

mismethylating is the present participle and gerund of mismethylate.

Meaning of mismethylate

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

Questions about mismethylating

What is mismethylating the present participle and gerund of?
Mismethylating is the present participle and gerund of mismethylate.

Words near mismethylating in the dictionary

  1. mismetering
  2. mismeters
  3. mismethylate
  4. mismethylated
  5. mismethylates
  6. mismethylating
  7. mismethylation
  8. mismetre
  9. mismetred
  10. mismetres
  11. mismetring

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