"Janus kinase" meaning in All languages combined

See Janus kinase on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: Janus kinases [plural]
Etymology: Shortened from just another kinase (being part of a large number of discoveries at the time); see Janus. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Janus kinase (plural Janus kinases)
  1. (biochemistry) Any of a family of intracellular non-receptor tyrosine kinases that transduce cytokine-mediated signals via the JAK-STAT pathway. Wikipedia link: Janus kinase Categories (topical): Enzymes Synonyms: JAK [abbreviation]
    Sense id: en-Janus_kinase-en-noun-KAFjvWsk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for Janus kinase meaning in All languages combined (1.7kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "Shortened from just another kinase (being part of a large number of discoveries at the time); see Janus.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Janus kinases",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Janus kinase (plural Janus kinases)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Enzymes",
          "orig": "en:Enzymes",
          "parents": [
            "Proteins",
            "Biomolecules",
            "Biochemistry",
            "Body parts",
            "Organic compounds",
            "Biology",
            "Chemistry",
            "Body",
            "Anatomy",
            "Matter",
            "Sciences",
            "Human",
            "Medicine",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of a family of intracellular non-receptor tyrosine kinases that transduce cytokine-mediated signals via the JAK-STAT pathway."
      ],
      "id": "en-Janus_kinase-en-noun-KAFjvWsk",
      "links": [
        [
          "biochemistry",
          "biochemistry"
        ],
        [
          "family",
          "family"
        ],
        [
          "intracellular",
          "intracellular"
        ],
        [
          "non-receptor",
          "non-receptor"
        ],
        [
          "tyrosine kinase",
          "tyrosine kinase"
        ],
        [
          "transduce",
          "transduce"
        ],
        [
          "cytokine",
          "cytokine"
        ],
        [
          "mediate",
          "mediate"
        ],
        [
          "signal",
          "signal"
        ],
        [
          "JAK-STAT",
          "JAK-STAT"
        ],
        [
          "pathway",
          "pathway"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biochemistry) Any of a family of intracellular non-receptor tyrosine kinases that transduce cytokine-mediated signals via the JAK-STAT pathway."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "abbreviation"
          ],
          "word": "JAK"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biochemistry",
        "biology",
        "chemistry",
        "microbiology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Janus kinase"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Janus kinase"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Shortened from just another kinase (being part of a large number of discoveries at the time); see Janus.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Janus kinases",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Janus kinase (plural Janus kinases)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Enzymes"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of a family of intracellular non-receptor tyrosine kinases that transduce cytokine-mediated signals via the JAK-STAT pathway."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "biochemistry",
          "biochemistry"
        ],
        [
          "family",
          "family"
        ],
        [
          "intracellular",
          "intracellular"
        ],
        [
          "non-receptor",
          "non-receptor"
        ],
        [
          "tyrosine kinase",
          "tyrosine kinase"
        ],
        [
          "transduce",
          "transduce"
        ],
        [
          "cytokine",
          "cytokine"
        ],
        [
          "mediate",
          "mediate"
        ],
        [
          "signal",
          "signal"
        ],
        [
          "JAK-STAT",
          "JAK-STAT"
        ],
        [
          "pathway",
          "pathway"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biochemistry) Any of a family of intracellular non-receptor tyrosine kinases that transduce cytokine-mediated signals via the JAK-STAT pathway."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "abbreviation"
          ],
          "word": "JAK"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biochemistry",
        "biology",
        "chemistry",
        "microbiology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Janus kinase"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Janus kinase"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.