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trans-endocytosis

trans-endocytosis is the alternative form of transendocytosis.

Meaning of transendocytosis

Noun

transendocytosis (countable and uncountable, plural transendocytoses)

  1. The movement of material from one cell to another
    • An increasing quantity of evidence supports a force-driven mode of activation of the Notch signalling pathway, whereby exposure of the critical S2 site in the Notch NRR occurs upon mechanical unfolding of the protein during transendocytosis of the Notch extracellular domain into the ligand...2015 July 30, Natalie L. Stephenson, Johanna M. Avis, “Mutational analysis of the Notch2 negative regulatory region identifies key structural elements for mechanical stability”, in FEBS Open Bio...

Forms of trans-endocytosis

pluraltrans-endocytoses

Questions about trans-endocytosis

What is trans-endocytosis the alternative form of?
Trans-endocytosis is the alternative form of transendocytosis.

Words near trans-endocytosis in the dictionary

  1. trans-cyclooctene
  2. trans-dimensional
  3. Trans-Dniester
  4. trans-Earth injection
  5. trans-endocytoses
  6. trans-endocytosis
  7. trans-equatorial
  8. trans-erasure
  9. trans-exclusionary
  10. trans-fat
  11. trans-fats

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