Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

depolyglutamylation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: de-polyg-lu-tamy-la-tion
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The removal of single glutamate residues from polyglutamate groups

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Our study demonstrates the functional roles of CCP1 in female reproduction and suggests that other cellular defects, in addition to abnormality of tubulin depolyglutamylation, may be involved in pcd mutant mice."

Etymology

From de- + polyglutamylation.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: de

Usage

Inflected Forms

depolyglutamylations (plural)

Questions

What does depolyglutamylation mean?: The removal of single glutamate residues from polyglutamate groups
Where does depolyglutamylation come from?: From de- + polyglutamylation.

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