catenase
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hypothetical enzyme that leads to the catenation of separated DNA strands.
Example Sentences
- "Nevertheless there remains the possibility that the action of the catenase when the chromosomes are pulled apart during cell division could unlink the daughter molecules."
- "I will digress briefly to tell you about a remarkably active catenase activity (unpublished observation by R. Low and A. Kornberg) ."
- "It is also interesting to note that two years before the discovery of the catenation-decatenation activity of DNA gyrase, Pohl and Roberts examined the possible existence of a new enzyme, the "catenase" which would make the alignment problem insignificant."