Adenylation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Adenylation is a noun meaning (biochemistry) Any reaction or process that forms an adenylate but especially such a posttranslational modification to a protein.
Meaning
(biochemistry) Any reaction or process that forms an adenylate but especially such a posttranslational modification to a protein.
Example Sentences
The assay for adenylation of aminoglycoside drugs by cell extract (actually aminoglycoside-dependent conversion of radioactive label from ATP into a form retained by phosphocellulose paper) was a modification of the method of Yamada et al.
Word Forms
- adenylations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include deadenylation, adenylylation, polyadenylation, adenosylation, oligoadenylation, deadenylylation.
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