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GLUCOKINASE

Specialty Definition: GLUCOKINASE

DomainDefinition

Biology & Biotechnology

A glycolytic enzyme expressed mainly in the insulin-secreting pancreatic beta-cells and hepatocytes where it catalyses the first rate limiting reaction in glycolysis. Source: European Union. (references)

Health

A group of enzymes that catalyzes the conversion of ATP and D-glucose to ADP and D-glucose 6-phosphate. They are found in invertebrates and microorganisms and are highly specific for glucose. (Enzyme Nomenclature, 1992) EC 2.7.1.2. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: GLUCOKINASE

"GLUCOKINASE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GLUCOKINASE" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: GLUCOKINASE

Language Translations for "GLUCOKINASE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

glucokinase. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ucokinaseglay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: GLUCOKINASE

Derivations

Words beginning with "GLUCOKINASE": glucokinases. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: GLUCOKINASE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-k-l-n-o-s-u"

-2 letters: caulkings, cousinage.

-3 letters: alnicoes, angulose, caulking, cloaking, coinages, congeals, eulogias, gasoline, gunlocks, kaolines, lacunose, ligneous, linkages, lockages, lunacies, sculking, skoaling, slacking, snaglike, solacing, songlike, suckling, uncloaks, unsocial.

-4 letters: acinose, acinous, agonies, agonise, alkines, alnicos, angelic, angelus, anglice, anisole, calking, calkins, cangues, casking, cauline, causing, ceasing, celosia, censual, cineols, cingula, closing, clueing, coaling, cognise.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-k-l-n-o-s-u"
 

+1 letter: glucokinases.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage Frequency
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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