Nucleoprotein

Definition: Nucleoprotein

Nucleoprotein

Noun

1. Any of several substances found in the nuclei of all living cells; consists of a protein bound to a nucleic acid.

Specialty Definitions: Nucleoprotein

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	Chromosomes consist largely of nuclei acids and proteins, joined here as complexes called nucleoproteins. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonym: Nucleoprotein

Synonym by domain: nuclear protein (medicine).

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Crosswords: Nucleoprotein

Specialty definitions using "nucleoprotein": Gene Products, gag ♦ Hepatitis Delta Virus. (references)

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Photo Album: Nucleoprotein

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Bullet-shaped virion is covered with 10-nm glycoprotein spikes. Ribonucleoprotein is composed of RNA encased in nucleoprotein (yellow), phosphorylated or phosphoprotein (orange), and polymerase (gray).Credit: CDC.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Nucleoprotein

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The ribonucleoprotein is composed of RNA encased in nucleoprotein, phosphorylated or phosphoprotein and polymerase. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Nucleoprotein

"Nucleoprotein" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nucleoprotein" is used about 2 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%	2	245,945

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

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Modern Translations: Nucleoprotein

Language		Translations for "nucleoprotein"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		nukleoprotein (nuclear protein). (various references)

Dutch		nucleoproteïne (nuclear protein), kerneiwit (nuclear protein). (various references)

Finnish		nukleoproteiini (nuclear protein, nucleoproteins). (various references)

French		nucléoprotéine (nuclear protein), NP. (various references)

German		Nuklearprotein (nuclear protein), Kerneiweiß (nuclear protein). (various references)

Greek		νουκλεοπρωτεΐνη (nuclear protein), πυρηνοπρωτεΐνη (nuclear protein). (various references)

Italian		nucleoproteina (nuclear protein). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		� �蛋白質 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かくた�"ぱくしつ. (various references)

Pig Latin		ucleoproteinnay

Portuguese		nucleoproteína (nuclear protein). (various references)

Spanish		nucleoproteína (nuclear protein). (various references)

Swedish		nukleoprotein (nuclear protein). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Nucleoprotein

Derivations
	Words beginning with "nucleoprotein": nucleoproteins. (additional references)
	Words ending with "nucleoprotein": ribonucleoprotein. (additional references)
	Words containing "nucleoprotein": ribonucleoproteins. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Nucleoprotein" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nucleopore. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Nucleoprotein

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-l-n-n-o-o-p-r-t-u"
	-2 letters: intercouple, neuroleptic.
	-3 letters: counterion, nonreceipt, prelection.
	-4 letters: centriole, centurion, continuer, coprolite, corpulent, elocution, encounter, entropion, interlope, necropoli, neutronic, nonerotic, nonpoetic, nonpolice, prenotion, princelet, pronounce, pronuclei, reception, repletion, terpineol, ureotelic.
	-5 letters: ceinture, centuple, continue, continuo, cornpone, cretonne, election, electron, entropic, enuretic, erection, eruption, eupnoeic, incenter, inceptor, leporine, leprotic, leptonic, locution, neotenic, neoteric, neuronic, neurotic, neutrino.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-l-n-n-o-o-p-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: nucleoproteins.
	+4 letters: ribonucleoprotein.
	+5 letters: pronounceabilities, ribonucleoproteins.
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