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Definition: Transaminase |
TransaminaseNoun1. A class of enzymes that cause transamination. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Aminotransferase (= a subclass of enzymes of the transferase class that catalyse the transfer of an amino group from a donor (generally an amino acid) to an acceptor (generally 2-keto acid). Most of these enzymes are pyridoxal-phosphate-proteins. (references) |
Medicine | An enzyme used as a catalyst in moving an amino acid from one compound to another. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Transaminase |
| Specialty definitions using "transaminase": Tyrosine Transaminase. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Transaminase" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (transaminase), Dutch (transaminase), Portuguese (transaminase). |
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Health | Both drugs cause mild diarrhea, and chenodiol may temporarily raise levels of blood cholesterol and the liver enzyme transaminase. (references) | |
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| "Transaminase" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Transaminase" is used about 17 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "transaminase": 4-Aminobutyrate Transaminase ♦ Alanine Transaminase ♦ Aspartate Transaminase ♦ glutamic oxalacetic transaminase ♦ glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase ♦ Glutamine-Fructose-6-Phosphate Transaminase (Isomerizing) ♦ Ornithine-Oxo-Acid Transaminase ♦ Tyrosine Transaminase. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
transaminase | 20 |
alanine transaminase | 5 |
piruvica transaminase | 5 |
serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase | 3 |
aspartate transaminase | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "transaminase"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | transaminase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | transaminase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | transaminaasi, aminotransferaasi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | transaminase (f), transaminase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Aminotransferase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | τρανσαμινάση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | transaminasi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ansaminasetray transaminase. (various references) transaminasa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "transaminase": transaminases. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-i-m-n-n-r-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: mannerists, samaritans, stannaries. | |
-3 letters: anamnesis, animaters, mannerist, marinates, samaritan, seatrains. | |
-4 letters: amanitas, amentias, amirates, amnesias, anaemias, anatases, animater, animates, antisera, artiness, artisans, asterias, asterism, atresias, entasias, entrains, insanest, insnares, mannites, mantises, mantissa, marantas, marinate, martians, matiness, minarets, minsters, misrates, raiments, ratanies, reinsman, remnants, retsinas, sarmenta, sarments, satanism, seatrain, seminars, smartens, smarties, stainers, staminas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-e-i-m-n-n-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: transaminases. | |
+4 letters: aminotransferase. | |
+5 letters: aminotransferases. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 61 6E 73 61 6D 69 6E 61 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. .- -. ... .- -- .. -. .- ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01100001 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a n s a m i n a s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0061 006E 0073 0061 006D 0069 006E 0061 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)548467808567797580678571 |
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