Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

glucose-6-phosphate isomerase

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.80 in modern English

Syllables: glu-cose-6-phos-phate i-so-merase
IPA

40

Scrabble Score

25

Letters

7

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An enzyme that catalyzes intercellular the interconversion of glucose 6-phosphate (G6P) and fructose 6-phosphate (F6P) and functions extracellular as a neurotrophic factor and lymphokine.

Inflected Forms

glucose-6-phosphate isomerases (plural) GPI (alternative, initialism) phosphoglucose isomerase (alternative) phosphoglucoisomerase (alternative) phosphohexose isomerase (alternative)

Questions

What does glucose-6-phosphate isomerase mean?: An enzyme that catalyzes intercellular the interconversion of glucose 6-phosphate (G6P) and fructose 6-phosphate (F6P) and functions extracellular as a neurotrophic factor and lymphokine.

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