misinteract

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ interact.

Verb

misinteract (third-person singular simple present misinteracts, present participle misinteracting, simple past and past participle misinteracted)

1. To interact incorrectly; to take part in an inappropriate interaction.
   • 2004, David Allyn, I Can't Believe I Just Did That, page 228:

     Even the rampant spread of psychological thinking has largely failed to awaken us to the ways we interact and misinteract in life.

   • 2011, Andrzej Joachimiak, Structural Genomics, Part A, page 65:

     If the N‐terminal domain of multidomain proteins could fold into its proper form before the polypeptide constituting the next domain comes out of the ribosome, it would reduce the chance of the coming polypeptide to misinteract with a part of the first domain.

   • 2018 March 8, David O Holland, Margaret E Johnson, “Stoichiometric balance of protein copy numbers is measurable and functionally significant in a protein-protein interaction network for yeast endocytosis”, in PLoS computational biology:

     First, a potential cost to imbalance is that 'leftover' proteins without remaining functional partners are free to misinteract.

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