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carbamidomethylation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
car-bamidomethy-la-tion
IPA
35
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
4
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A chemical modification where a carbamidomethyl group is added to cysteine residues in proteins, usually using iodoacetamide, to block reactive thiol groups and prevent disulfide bonds from reforming, especially during mass spectrometry sample preparation.

Etymology

From carbamidomethyl + -ation.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

carbamidomethylations (plural)

Questions

What does carbamidomethylation mean?
A chemical modification where a carbamidomethyl group is added to cysteine residues in proteins, usually using iodoacetamide, to block reactive thiol groups and prevent disulfide bonds from reforming, especially during mass spectrometry sample preparation.
Where does carbamidomethylation come from?
From carbamidomethyl + -ation.

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