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proteostasis

proteostasis noun: eukaryotic protein homeostasis.

Noun

proteostasis (uncountable)

  1. eukaryotic protein homeostasis

Origin of proteostasis

From proteo- + -stasis.

Questions about proteostasis

What does proteostasis mean?
Proteostasis means eukaryotic protein homeostasis.
What part of speech is proteostasis?
Proteostasis is a noun.

Words near proteostasis in the dictionary

  1. proteosomal
  2. proteosomally
  3. proteosome
  4. proteosomes
  5. proteosomic
  6. proteostasis
  7. proteostatic
  8. proteostatically
  9. proteostome
  10. proteosynthesis
  11. proteosynthetic

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