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| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | An enzyme that repairs single stranded discontinuities in double stranded DNA molecules in the cell. Purified DNA ligase is used in gene cloning to join DNA molecules together. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
DNA ligase can ligate broken DNA strands, forming covalent phosphodiester bonds.
An example of how a ligase works (with sticky ends):
5'-AGTCTGATCTGACT GATGCGTATGCTAGTGCT-3' 3'-TCAGACTAGACTGACTACG CATACGATCACGA-5' becomes 5'-AGTCTGATCTGACTGATGCGTATGCTAGTGCT-3' 3'-TCAGACTAGACTGACTACGCATACGATCACGA-5'
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ligase."
Crosswords: LIGASE |
| Specialty definitions using "LIGASE": Adenylosuccinate Synthase, alkaline phosphatase ♦ Ligase Chain Reaction ♦ Okazaki fragment ♦ Pyruvate Carboxylase ♦ synthetase. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "LIGASE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (ligase, synthetase). |
| "LIGASE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LIGASE" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "LIGASE": Acetate-CoA Ligase ♦ Alanine-tRNA Ligase ♦ Arginine-tRNA Ligase ♦ Aspartate-Ammonia Ligase ♦ Aspartate-tRNA Ligase ♦ DNA ligase ♦ Formate-Tetrahydrofolate Ligase ♦ Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase ♦ Glutamate-Cysteine Ligase ♦ Glutamate-tRNA Ligase ♦ Glycine-tRNA Ligase ♦ Histidine-tRNA Ligase ♦ Isoleucine-tRNA Ligase ♦ Leucine-tRNA Ligase ♦ Ligase Chain Reaction ♦ Lysine-tRNA Ligase ♦ Methionine-tRNA Ligase ♦ Phenylalanine-tRNA Ligase ♦ RNA Ligase (ATP) ♦ Serine-tRNA Ligase ♦ Threonine-tRNA Ligase ♦ Tryptophan-tRNA Ligase ♦ Tyrosine-tRNA Ligase ♦ Valine-tRNA Ligase. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ligase | 5 |
dna ligase | 4 |
ligase chain reaction | 4 |
dna ligase t4 | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "LIGASE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ligase (synthetase). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ligase (synthetase). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ligaasi (synthetase). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ligase, synthétase, soudeurs moléculaires. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ligase (synthetase). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνθετάση (synthetase), λιγάση (synthetase). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ligasi (synthetase), sintetasi (synthetase). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | igaselay ligase (synthetase), sintetase (synthetase). (various references) ligasa (synthetase). (various references) ligas (synthetase). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "LIGASE": ligases. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: silage. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-s" | |
-1 letter: aegis, agile, aisle, gales, glias. | |
-2 letters: ages, ails, ales, egal, egis, gaes, gale, gals, gels, gies, glia, ilea, isle, lags, lase, leas, legs, leis, lies, sage, sail, sale, seal, sial, slag. | |
-3 letters: age, ail, ais, ale, als, els, gae, gal, gas, gel, gie, lag, las, lea, leg, lei, lie, lis, sae, sag, sal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-s" | |
+1 letter: aiglets, gallies, glaires, glaives, glassie, goalies, leasing, ligases, ligates, linages, milages, sealing, silages, soilage. | |
+2 letters: aligners, dealings, eanlings, egalites, elapsing, elegiacs, engrails, ensilage, eulogias, finagles, foliages, gadflies, gainless, galaxies, galilees, galleins, gasalier, gaselier, gasolier, gasoline, gelatins, gelsemia, genitals, gestical, girasole, glaciers, glacises, gladiest, glariest, glassier, glassies, glassine, glaziers, glaziest, glissade, graciles, greasily, gremials, healings, illegals, latigoes, leadings, leanings, leashing, leasings, leavings, legacies, legalise, legalism, legalist, lineages, linkages, mileages, millages, nargiles, otalgies, pillages, pleasing, realigns, semigala, seraglio, shealing, shigella, signaled, signaler, singable, slaggier, slangier, sleaving, slippage, snaglike, soilages, spillage, spoilage, stealing, tillages, villages, weigelas, yealings. | |
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