Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mismethylate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mis-methy-late
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To methylate incorrectly.

Example Sentences

"We did find that one of tbe Salmonella genes, cbiF, was capable of 'mismethylating' precorrin-3 at the 1 l-position, ie out of the natural order, to yield a tetramethyl pyrrocorphin"
"CysG is a homodimer with a subunit Mᵣ of 50,000, which, in addition to catalyzing methylation at C-2 and C-7, can also mismethylate precorrin 2 at C-12 to afford a trimethylpyrrocorphin derailment product."
"M. jannaschii Nep mismethylates T-arm resembling RNAs."
"Biosynthesis of Mismethylated Analogs of Cobalamin"

Etymology

From mis- + methylate.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: mis

Inflected Forms

mismethylates (present, singular) mismethylating (participle, present) mismethylated (participle, past) mismethylated (past)

Questions

What does mismethylate mean?: To methylate incorrectly.
Where does mismethylate come from?: From mis- + methylate.

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