Nonsynthetase

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not being or relating to synthetase. not-comparable

    "Among twenty ARSs, eight ARSs (RARS, DARS, QARS, EPRS, LARS, IARS, KARS, and MARS) with three nonsynthetase components, aminoacyl tRNA synthetase complex-interaction multifunctional protein (AIMP) 1, 2 and 3, are known to form a supramolecular multi-tRNA synthetase complex (MSC), whose molecular weight has been proposed to be about 1.5 MDa."

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"Among twenty ARSs, eight ARSs (RARS, DARS, QARS, EPRS, LARS, IARS, KARS, and MARS) with three nonsynthetase components, aminoacyl tRNA synthetase complex-interaction multifunctional protein (AIMP) 1, 2 and 3, are known to form a supramolecular multi-tRNA synthetase complex (MSC), whose molecular weight has been proposed to be about 1.5 MDa."

Etymology

From non- + synthetase.

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