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janus kinase

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English

Syllables
janus k-i-nase
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a family of intracellular non-receptor tyrosine kinases that transduce cytokine-mediated signals via the JAK-STAT pathway.

Etymology

Shortened from just another kinase (being part of a large number of discoveries at the time); see Janus.

Inflected Forms

Janus kinases (plural)

Synonyms

JAK

Questions

What does janus kinase mean?
Any of a family of intracellular non-receptor tyrosine kinases that transduce cytokine-mediated signals via the JAK-STAT pathway.
Where does janus kinase come from?
Shortened from just another kinase (being part of a large number of discoveries at the time); see Janus.

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