phosphomimic
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editphosphomimic (not comparable)
- (of a protein) Modified (by amino acid substitution) to mimic a phosphorylated protein
- 2015 October 15, “Inhibition of Receptor Dimerization as a Novel Negative Feedback Mechanism of EGFR Signaling”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- To examine the possible role of PKD1 in the monomerization of EGFR, we used PKD1 S738/742E, a constitutively active phosphomimic mutant [40 ].
Noun
editphosphomimic (plural phosphomimics)
- Such a modified protein
Verb
editphosphomimic (third-person singular simple present phosphomimics, present participle phosphomimicing, simple past and past participle phosphomimiced)
- To mimic a phosphorylated protein