autophosphatase
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A phosphatase that dephosphorylates itself
Example Sentences
- "an autophosphatase reaction"
- "In addition, KaiC, which can act both as an autokinase and an autophosphatase, undergoes robust daily phosphorylation cycles that depend on its physical interactions with KaiA and KaiB."
Etymology
From auto- + phosphatase.
Inflected Forms
autophosphatases (plural)
auto-phosphatase (alternative)
Frequently Paired Words
autokinase
autophosphorylase