Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

citrullination

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cit-rul-li-na-tion
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The posttranslational modification of the amino acid arginine in a protein into the amino acid citrulline.

Example Sentences

"Naturally occurring/substituted amino acids, flanking targeted arginine, influence its susceptibility to citrullination by peptidylarginine deiminases."
"In MS citrullination is the most studied PTM^([post-translational modification]) from those listed in Table 6.1."
"2019, Shuzheng Song, Yingyan Yu, Progression on Citrullination of Proteins in Gastrointestinal Cancers, Zhe-Sheng Chen, Jian-ye Zhang, Yunkai Zhang, Yan-yan Yan (editors), Targeted Cancer Therapies, From Small Molecules to Antibodies, Frontiers Media, page 162, The exact effect of citrullination of proteins on cancer should be studied further. Citrullination of proteins is not only detected in in vitro experiments, but also in human blood."

Etymology

From citrulline + -ation.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: citrulline

Inflected Forms

citrullinations (plural)

Derived Forms

autocitrullination hypercitrullination

Synonyms

deimination

Questions

What does citrullination mean?: The posttranslational modification of the amino acid arginine in a protein into the amino acid citrulline.
Where does citrullination come from?: From citrulline + -ation.

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