kinase

See also: Kinase

English

Phosphorylation of a protein, a process catylyzed by a protein kinase

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κινεῖν (kineîn, “to move”) + -ase, a suffix forming enzyme names.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɪneɪz/, /ˈkaɪneɪs/, /ˈkɪneɪz/, /ˈkɪneɪs/

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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.

Synonyms

• phosphokinase

Derived terms

• acetokinase
• angiokinase
• aspartokinase
• Bruton's tyrosine kinase
• carboxykinase
• cholecystokinase
• creatine kinase
• creatinkinase
• dikinase
• ectokinase
• exokinase
• fructokinase
• galactokinase
• glucokinase
• immunokinase
• Janus kinase
• ketohexokinase
• kinome
• lumbrokinase
• lumbrokinase
• multikinase
• myokinase
• nattokinase
• nonkinase
• oncokinase
• oxykinase
• phosphoglucokinase
• phosphoglycerate kinase
• photokinase
• Polo kinase
• protein kinase
• pseudokinase
• streptokinase
• thiokinase
• thrombokinase
• urokinase

 

Translations

enzyme that transfers phosphate groups

• Catalan: cinasa f, quinasa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 激酶 (zh) (jīméi)

• Czech: kináza f
• Dutch: kinase (nl) n
• Finnish: kinaasi
• French: kinase (fr)
• German: Kinase (de) f
• Greek: κινάση (el) f (kinási)
• Hungarian: kináz (hu)
• Icelandic: kínasi m
• Indonesian: kinase
• Italian: chinasi (it), cinasi
• Kazakh: киназа (kinaza)
• Polish: kinaza f
• Portuguese: cinase, quinase
• Spanish: cinasa, quinasa, kinasa f
• Swedish: kinas (sv) n
• Vietnamese: kinaza

See also

• phosphatase
• phosphorylation

Anagrams

• Aikens, Eakins, Sekani, enkais, nakies

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

kinase f (plural kinases)

1. kinase

Further reading

• “kinase”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch kinase, from Ancient Greek κινεῖν (kineîn, “to move”) + -ase, a suffix forming enzyme names.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki.ˈna.sə/
• Rhymes: -sə
• Hyphenation: ki‧na‧sê

Noun

kinasê (plural kinase-kinase, first-person possessive kinaseku, second-person possessive kinasemu, third-person possessive kinasenya)

1. (biochemistry) kinase

Further reading

• “kinase” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.