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Secretase

Definition: Secretase

Secretase

Noun

1. A set of enzymes believed to snip pieces off a longer protein producing fragments of amyloid protein that bunch up and create amyloid protein plaques in brain tissue (the pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's).

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Non-Fiction Usage: Secretase

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Because of this work, beta secretase now has been identified as a member of a family of protein-clipping enzymes called aspartic proteases. (references)

They also knew that another enzyme, alpha secretase, clipped APP in the middle of the amyloid region, preventing beta-amyloid from being formed. (references)

Even more recently, other teams of researchers conducted studies that are believed to have identified the second APP-clipping enzyme – gamma secretase. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Secretase

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  gamma inhibitor secretase

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Anagrams: Secretase

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-r-s-s-t"

-1 letter: cateress, cerastes, esterase, secretes, sesterce, tesserae.

-2 letters: actress, casters, cerates, creases, creates, creeses, cresset, easters, ecartes, ectases, recasts, reseats, resects, searest, seaters, secrete, secrets, teasers, tessera.

-3 letters: aretes, assert, asters, caress, carets, carses, cartes, caster, castes, caters, ceases, cerate, certes, cestas, crases, crates, crease, create, creese, crests, easter, eaters, ecarte, erases, erects, escars.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-r-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: cateresses, desecrates.

 

+2 letters: desecraters, eviscerates, pacesetters, reescalates, secretaries, streetscape, telecasters.

 

+3 letters: ancestresses, benefactress, creativeness, letterspaces, masterpieces, reactiveness, respectables, streetscapes, watercresses.

 

+4 letters: deconsecrates, enchantresses, reconsecrates, secretagogues, steeplechaser, transferences.

 

+5 letters: accuratenesses, benefactresses, bureaucrateses, celebratedness, cholinesterase, creativenesses, creatureliness, creditableness, decorativeness, disrespectable, farfetchedness, overspeculates, pectinesterase, preadolescents, preanesthetics, reactivenesses, refractiveness, reorchestrates, steeplechasers, subsecretaries, superspectacle, transcendences, verticalnesses, weathercasters.

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Alternative Orthography: Secretase


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 63 72 65 74 61 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01100011 01110010 01100101 01110100 01100001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#99 &#114 &#101 &#116 &#97 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 0063 0072 0065 0074 0061 0073 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

537169847186678571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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