"carrier protein" meaning in All languages combined

See carrier protein on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: carrier proteins [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} carrier protein (plural carrier proteins)
  1. (biochemistry) Any protein whose function is to transport small molecules (or other proteins) through biological membranes Wikipedia link: carrier protein

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "carrier proteins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "carrier protein (plural carrier proteins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Proteins",
          "orig": "en:Proteins",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any protein whose function is to transport small molecules (or other proteins) through biological membranes"
      ],
      "id": "en-carrier_protein-en-noun-DMNdbSdK",
      "links": [
        [
          "biochemistry",
          "biochemistry"
        ],
        [
          "transport",
          "transport"
        ],
        [
          "biological",
          "biological"
        ],
        [
          "membrane",
          "membrane"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biochemistry) Any protein whose function is to transport small molecules (or other proteins) through biological membranes"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biochemistry",
        "biology",
        "chemistry",
        "microbiology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "carrier protein"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "carrier protein"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "carrier proteins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "carrier protein (plural carrier proteins)",
      "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",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Proteins"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any protein whose function is to transport small molecules (or other proteins) through biological membranes"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "biochemistry",
          "biochemistry"
        ],
        [
          "transport",
          "transport"
        ],
        [
          "biological",
          "biological"
        ],
        [
          "membrane",
          "membrane"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biochemistry) Any protein whose function is to transport small molecules (or other proteins) through biological membranes"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biochemistry",
        "biology",
        "chemistry",
        "microbiology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "carrier protein"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "carrier protein"
}

Download raw JSONL data for carrier protein meaning in All languages combined (1.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (89ebc88 and e74c913). 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.