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phosducin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
phos-ducin
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A phosphoprotein found in the rod cells in the retina that modulates the phototransduction cascade by interacting with the beta and gamma subunits of the retinal G-protein transducin.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The gene that encodes this protein.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

phosducins (plural)

Questions

What does phosducin mean?
A phosphoprotein found in the rod cells in the retina that modulates the phototransduction cascade by interacting with the beta and gamma subunits of the retinal G-protein transducin.

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