"kinase" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkaɪneɪz/, /ˈkaɪneɪs/, /ˈkɪneɪz/, /ˈkɪneɪs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-kinase2.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-kinase.wav [Southern-England] Forms: kinases [plural]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κινεῖν (kineîn, “to move”) + -ase, a suffix forming enzyme names. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|κινέω|κινεῖν|to move}} Ancient Greek κινεῖν (kineîn, “to move”), {{m|en|-ase}} -ase Head templates: {{en-noun}} kinase (plural kinases)
  1. (biochemistry, organic chemistry) Any of a group of enzymes that transfer phosphate groups from high-energy donor molecules, such as ATP, to specific target molecules (substrates), in a process termed phosphorylation. Wikipedia link: kinase Categories (topical): Enzymes, Organic compounds Synonyms: phosphokinase Related terms: phosphatase, phosphorylation Translations (enzyme that transfers phosphate groups): cinasa [feminine] (Catalan), quinasa [feminine] (Catalan), 激酶 (jīméi) (Chinese Mandarin), kináza [feminine] (Czech), kinase [neuter] (Dutch), kinaasi (Finnish), kinase (French), Kinase [feminine] (German), κινάση (kinási) [feminine] (Greek), kináz (Hungarian), kínasi [masculine] (Icelandic), kinase (Indonesian), chinasi (Italian), cinasi (Italian), киназа (kinaza) (Kazakh), kinaza [feminine] (Polish), cinase (Portuguese), quinase (Portuguese), cinasa (Spanish), quinasa (Spanish), kinasa [feminine] (Spanish), kinas [neuter] (Swedish), kinaza (Vietnamese)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.