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quinohaemoprotein

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
quino-haemo-pro-tein
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a class of proteins that have haem and quinone as cofactors

Etymology

From quino- + haemo- + protein. Coined by B W Groen, M A van Kleef, and J A Duine in 1986 in https://doi.org/10.1042%2Fbj2340611

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

quinohaemoproteins (plural)

Questions

What does quinohaemoprotein mean?
Any of a class of proteins that have haem and quinone as cofactors
Where does quinohaemoprotein come from?
From quino- + haemo- + protein. Coined by B W Groen, M A van Kleef, and J A Duine in 1986 in https://doi.org/10.1042%2Fbj2340611

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