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phosphoglyceromutase

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
phos-pho-glyc-ero-mu-tase
IPA
38
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
6
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An enzyme involved in glycolysis that catalyzes the internal transfer of a phosphate group from C-3 to C-2, resulting in the conversion of 3-phosphoglycerate to 2-phosphoglycerate through a 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate intermediate.

Etymology

From phosphoglycerate + mutase.

Inflected Forms

phosphoglyceromutases (plural)

Questions

What does phosphoglyceromutase mean?
An enzyme involved in glycolysis that catalyzes the internal transfer of a phosphate group from C-3 to C-2, resulting in the conversion of 3-phosphoglycerate to 2-phosphoglycerate through a 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate intermediate.
Where does phosphoglyceromutase come from?
From phosphoglycerate + mutase.

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