Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

adducinlike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ad-ducin-like
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to the protein produced by the hu-li tai shao gene (hts) in Drosophila, which serves a role similar to that of adducin.

Example Sentences

"The spectrosome and the fusome contain membrane cytoskeletal proteins such as α- spectrin, β-spectrin, the adducinlike product of the hu-li tai shao (hts) gene, and ankyrin (de Cuevas et al., 1997; McKearin, 1997)."
"Cystoblasts/cystocytes also divide asymmetrically, and in doing so, the spectrosome evolves into a branched fusome in the 16-cell cyst (5,37), accumulating proteins like Bam, ankyrin, α- and β-spectrins, the adducinlike product of the hu-li tai shao gene (HtsF), dynein (Dhc64C), and Cyclin A (5,35,36)."

Etymology

From adducin + -like.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: adducin

Inflected Forms

more adducinlike (comparative) most adducinlike (superlative)

Questions

What does adducinlike mean?: Pertaining to the protein produced by the hu-li tai shao gene (hts) in Drosophila, which serves a role similar to that of adducin.
Where does adducinlike come from?: From adducin + -like.

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