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small nuclear ribonucleoprotein

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English

Syllables
smal-l- nu-cle-ar ri-bonu-cle-o-pro-tein
IPA
39
Scrabble Score
29
Letters
10
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

snRNPs (or small nuclear ribonucleoproteins) pronounced "snurps", are RNA-protein complexes that combine with unmodified pre-mRNA and various other proteins to form a spliceosome.

Inflected Forms

small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (plural)

Questions

What does small nuclear ribonucleoprotein mean?
snRNPs (or small nuclear ribonucleoproteins) pronounced "snurps", are RNA-protein complexes that combine with unmodified pre-mRNA and various other proteins to form a spliceosome.

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