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transendocytosis

transendocytosis noun: the movement of material from one cell to another.

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 transendocytosis

pluraltransendocytoses
alternative formtrans-endocytosis

Origin of transendocytosis

From trans- + endocytosis.

Questions about transendocytosis

What does transendocytosis mean?
Transendocytosis means the movement of material from one cell to another.
What part of speech is transendocytosis?
Transendocytosis is a noun.
What is the plural of transendocytosis?
The plural of transendocytosis is transendocytoses.

Words near transendocytosis in the dictionary

  1. transelevators
  2. transempirical
  3. transendocardial
  4. transendocytic
  5. transendocytoses
  6. transendocytosis
  7. transendomyocardial
  8. transendomyocardially
  9. transendoscopic
  10. transendoscopically
  11. transendothelial

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