Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

readenylation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: read-eny-la-tion
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A second or subsequent adenylation, especially one following deadenylation.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The processes of deadenylation and readenylation of the t-PA mRNA are controlled by nucleotide sequences found in the 3'untranslated region (UTR)."
"It did not change during the cell cycle, indicating that these changes were dependent on the presence of CPE, and poly(A) tails were generally long, maintaining the long poly(A) tails acquired co-transcriptionally, and therefore indicating that CPEs are required for deadenylation of the mature transcript as well as for later readenylation at specific cell cycle phases."

Etymology

From re- + adenylation.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: re

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does readenylation mean?: A second or subsequent adenylation, especially one following deadenylation.
Where does readenylation come from?: From re- + adenylation.

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