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SYNTHETASE

Specialty Definition: SYNTHETASE

DomainDefinition

Medicine

An enzyme that repairs single stranded discontinuities in double stranded DNA molecules in the cell. Purified DNA ligase is used in gene cloning to join DNA molecules together. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonym: SYNTHETASE

Synonym by domain: ligase (medicine).

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Crosswords: SYNTHETASE

Specialty definitions using "SYNTHETASE": Amino Acid Activation, Argininosuccinic Acid ♦ Fluorodeoxyuridylate ♦ Nordihydroguaiaretic Acid ♦ omega-N-Methylarginine ♦ Phenylmethylsulfonyl Fluoride, Pteroylpolyglutamic Acids ♦ RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl ♦ Uroporphyrinogens. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SYNTHETASE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Molecular Genetic Studies of 3 Autosomal Recessive Disorders: Sjogren-Larsson Syndrome, Glutathione Synthetase Deficiency and Congenital Ichthyosis) (reference)

  • Function & Regulation of Acetyl-Coenzyme a Synthetase in the Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae (reference)

  • Prostaglandin synthetase inhibitors : their effects on physiological functions and pathological states ; sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, inc. of New York and the Royal Society of Medicine of London, held November 28-30, 1973 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: SYNTHETASE

"SYNTHETASE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "SYNTHETASE" is used about 16 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)93.75%1590,616
Lexical Verb (base form)6.25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%16N/A

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

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Expressions: SYNTHETASE

Expressions using "SYNTHETASE": 5-Aminolevulinate Synthetase ♦ Squalene Synthetase. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SYNTHETASE

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

glutamine synthetase

7

argininosuccinate deficiency synthetase

2

brain nitric oxide synthetase

2

prpp synthetase

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SYNTHETASE

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

Danish

  

ligase (ligase). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ligase (ligase). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ligaasi (ligase). (various references)

   

French

  

synthétase, soudeurs moléculaires, ligase. (various references)

   

German

  

Ligase (ligase). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συνθετάση (ligase), λιγάση (ligase). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sintetasi (ligase), ligasi (ligase). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ynthetasesay

   

Portuguese

  

sintetase (ligase), ligase (ligase). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ligasa (ligase). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ligas (ligase). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: SYNTHETASE

Derivations

Words beginning with "SYNTHETASE": synthetases. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: SYNTHETASE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-n-s-s-t-t-y"

-2 letters: antheses, shanteys.

-3 letters: astheny, entases, estates, ethanes, ethynes, hastens, neatest, sateens, senates, sensate, shantey, snathes, teentsy, tensest.

-4 letters: assent, enates, estate, ethane, ethyne, eyases, hanses, hasten, hastes, hyenas, sanest, sateen, sayest, senate, sestet, shanty, sheens, sheeny, sheets, shyest, snathe, snaths, sneesh, stanes, states, synths, tasset, tastes, teases, teensy, tenets, tenses, tenths, testae, testes.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-n-s-s-t-t-y"
 

+1 letter: synthetases.

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

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency 		5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations 		9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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