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phosphomimic

phosphomimic adjective: modified (by amino acid substitution) to mimic a phosphorylated protein.

Adjective

phosphomimic (not comparable)

  1. Modified (by amino acid substitution) to mimic a phosphorylated protein
    • To examine the possible role of PKD1 in the monomerization of EGFR, we used PKD1 S738/742E, a constitutively active phosphomimic mutant [40 ].2015 October 15, “Inhibition of Receptor Dimerization as a Novel Negative Feedback Mechanism of EGFR Signaling”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Noun

phosphomimic (plural phosphomimics)

  1. Such a modified protein

Verb

phosphomimic (third-person singular simple present phosphomimics, present participle phosphomimicing, simple past and past participle phosphomimiced)

  1. To mimic a phosphorylated protein

Forms of phosphomimic

Noun
pluralphosphomimics
Verb
third-person singular presentphosphomimics
present participlephosphomimicing
past participlephosphomimiced
pastphosphomimiced

Origin of phosphomimic

From phospho- + mimic.

Questions about phosphomimic

What does phosphomimic mean?
Phosphomimic means modified (by amino acid substitution) to mimic a phosphorylated protein.
What part of speech is phosphomimic?
Phosphomimic can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.

Words near phosphomimic in the dictionary

  1. phosphomevalonate
  2. phosphomevalonates
  3. phosphomevalonic acid
  4. phosphomimetic
  5. phosphomimetics
  6. phosphomimic
  7. phosphomimicking
  8. phosphomimicry
  9. phosphomimics
  10. phosphomodification
  11. phosphomodifications

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