Associations to the word «Kinase»

Wiktionary

KINASE, noun. (enzyme) (organic compound) Any of a group of enzymes that transfers phosphate groups from high-energy donor molecules, such as ATP, to specific target molecules (substrates), in a process termed phosphorylation.

Dictionary definition

KINASE, noun. An enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of a proenzyme to an active enzyme.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope