Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

citrullinated

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cit-rul-li-nat-ed
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Reacted with, or converted to, citrulline.

verb

simple past and past participle of citrullinate

Example Sentences

"Initially it has been suggested that fibrin is the most citrullinated protein in RA joints (Iobagiu et al., 2011), but now the presence of citrullinated vimentin and aggrecan is also detected (Glant et al., 2016)."
"2019, Venkatesh V. Nemmara, Paul R. Thompson, Development of Activity-Based Proteomic Probes for Protein Citrullination, Benjamin F. Cravatt, Ku-Lung Hsu, Eranthie Weerapana (editors), Activity-Based Protein Profiling, Springer, page 244, Given that aberrant citrullination is a hallmark of various autoimmune diseases and certain tumor types, it is important to develop protein detection methods to identify citrullinated proteins in complex biological systems."
"It^([vimentin]) had already been described in AD (25) and is one of the most citrullinated proteins besides MBP and GFAP in WMMS."

Etymology

From Latin citrullus (“watermelon”) + -ine + -ate + -ed.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: citrullus
Suffix: -ine

Inflected Forms

more citrullinated (comparative) most citrullinated (superlative)

Derived Forms

anticitrullinated autocitrullinated noncitrullinated uncitrullinated

Questions

What does citrullinated mean?: Reacted with, or converted to, citrulline.
Where does citrullinated come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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