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Meaning of "magainin" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MAGAININ

From Hebrew magain a shield.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MAGAININ

magainin  [məˈɡeɪnɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MAGAININ

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Magainin is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MAGAININ MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Magainin

Magainin are a class of antimicrobial peptides found in the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis. They were discovered by Dr. Michael Zasloff and first reported in 1987.

Definition of magainin in the English dictionary

The definition of magainin in the dictionary is any of a series of related substances with antibacterial properties, derived from the skins of frogs.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MAGAININ


agglutinin
əˈɡluːtɪnɪn
antifeminine
ˌæntɪˈfemɪnɪn
artemisinin
ˌɑːtɪˈmɪzɪnɪn
bradykinin
ˌbrædɪˈkaɪnɪn
cholecystokinin
ˌkɒlɪˌsɪstəˈkaɪnɪn
citrinin
sɪˈtraɪnɪn
cytokinin
ˌsaɪtəʊˈkaɪnɪn
feminine
ˈfɛmɪnɪn
haemagglutinin
ˌhiːməˈɡluːtɪnɪn
hemagglutinin
ˌhiːməˈɡluːtɪnɪn
isoagglutinin
ˌaɪsəʊəˈɡluːtɪnɪn
kinin
ˈkaɪnɪn
laminin
ˈlæmɪnɪn
linen
ˈlɪnɪn
linin
ˈlaɪnɪn
tanghinin
ˈtæŋɡɪnɪn
ultrafeminine
ˌʌltrəˈfɛmɪnɪn
unfeminine
ʌnˈfɛmɪnɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MAGAININ

mag
mag tape
mag.
Magallanes
magalog
magalogue
magazine
magazine rack
magazinist
magdalen
Magdalena
Magdalena Bay
Magdalene
Magdalenian
Magdeburg
Magdeburg laws
mage

WORDS THAT END LIKE MAGAININ

Bakunin
Benin
calcitonin
conin
Cronin
Esenin
hemocyanin
hennin
Kalinin
Lenin
lignin
melanin
melatonin
renin
ronin
saponin
serotonin
tannin
troponin
venin

Synonyms and antonyms of magainin in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «magainin» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MAGAININ

Find out the translation of magainin to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of magainin from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «magainin» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

马盖宁
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

magainina
570 millions of speakers

English

magainin
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

magainin
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

magainin
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

magainin
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

magainina
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

magainin
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

magainine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Magainin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Magainin
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

マゲイニン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

magainin
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Magainin
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

magainin
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

magainin
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मॅजेनेसिन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

magainin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

magainin
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

magainin
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

magainin
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

magainin
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μαγκαϊνίνης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

magainin
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Magainin
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

magainin
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of magainin

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MAGAININ»

The term «magainin» is used very little and occupies the 153.797 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MAGAININ» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «magainin» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «magainin» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about magainin

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAGAININ»

Discover the use of magainin in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to magainin and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Transdermal Drug Delivery Enhanced by Magainin Peptide
The world-wide transdermal drug delivery market is quite large, but only a small number of agents have FDA approval.
Yeu Chun Kim, 2007
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Popular Science
Over the next two years, Zasloff and his colleagues determined magainin's chemical structure, then synthesized it in the laboratory (so they wouldn't have to kill frogs any longer). They also verified that magainins work like several other animal ...
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ANNUAL REPORTS IN MED CHEMISTRY V27 PPR
2) results in an increase in their antimicrobial and antiprotozoan activity (23—24). in contrast, the analog magainin H, which contains D-alanine at three positions in magainin 2 (Fig.2), does not exhibit any antimicrobial or antiprotozoan activity ...
John M. McCall, 1992
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Membrane Structure in Disease and Drug Therapy
hand, hacterial cells are depolarized immediately on exposure to magainin (98, 99), and decoupling of the respiratory free energy transduction of mitochondria and spermatozoa (l00) has heen reported, although the cells are not physically ...
Svante Cornell, 2000
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Bioactive Proteins and Peptides as Functional Foods and ...
It was shown that magainin alone had no effect on skin permeability, probably because the relatively large magainin molecule had difficulty penetrating throughout the stratum corneum to make continuous transdermal pathways. However ...
Yoshinori Mine, PhD, Eunice Li-Chan, Bo Jiang, 2011
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Development of Therapeutic Agents Handbook
... 26 KWKSFlKTFKSAvKTvlHTAlKAISS Y 0 7 Cecropin A (1– 8) + melittin B (1–18 ) derivative (v681: v13K) 26 KWKSFlKTFKSAKKTvlHTAlKAISS Y 0 8 Magainin 2 23 GIGKFlHSAKKFGKAFvGEIMNS Y 0 5 Cecropin A (1– 8) + magainin 2 (1–12)  ...
Shayne Cox Gad, 2011
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Modern Magnetic Resonance: Part 1: Applications in ...
Solid-State NMR Experiments: Peptide Orientation in Bilayers Magainin 2 As a classical example of amphipathic oc-helical antimicrobial peptides, magainin, and its natural and synthetic analogues have been intensively studied [64].
Graham Alan Webb, 2007
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Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry , Volume (1)
Haung and co-workers also showed that the protegrin [166], alamethicin [167], melittin [168], and magainin [169] peptides all exhibit different circular dichroism spectra, one at high peptide/lipid ratios and the other at low peptide/lipid ratios.
Atta-ur-Rahman, Allen B. Reitz, M. Iqbal Choudhary, 2004
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Planar Lipid Bilayers (BLM's) and Their Applications
6.3.2 Single channel recording and conductance dependence on the membrane voltage Planar lipid membranes were used to see whether and in which experimental conditions magainin 2 at a concentration of 4.05*10-8M is able to fonn ...
H.T. Tien †, A. Ottova-Leitmannova, 2003
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Cell Physiology Sourcebook: Essentials of Membrane Biophysics
This can be accomplished if the monomeric units become slightly less compact by allowing Leu 13 to adopt the a-helical conformation. The sacrifice in conformational energy is about 3 kcal/mol (Kempf et al., 1982). Magainin This 23- residue ...
Nicholas Sperelakis, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAGAININ»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term magainin is used in the context of the following news items.
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Egalet Appoints Nicholas Nicolaides, Ph.D. and John Osborn to …
Prior to co-founding Morphotek, Dr. Nicolaides was the director of research at Magainin Pharmaceuticals, where his research focused on the ... «PR Newswire, Apr 15»
2
MicuRx Expands Global Clinical Trial Program For Oral Antibiotic …
... by Forest Laboratories), Peninsula Pharmaceuticals (acquired by J&J Pharmaceuticals), Genesoft Inc, and Magainin Pharmaceuticals Inc. He ... «PR Newswire, Dec 13»
3
Why the Biotech Industry Is Rejoicing over the End of Gene Patents
... Valley-based biotech company. Magainin Pharmaceuticals, in Pennsylvania, holds several patents on genes related to asthma and allergies. «Motherboard, Jun 13»
4
AltheRx Pharmaceuticals Appoints Michael R Dougherty to Board of …
... including Genaera Corporation, (formerly Magainin Pharmaceuticals Inc.) and Centocor, Inc. Michael is currently a member of the Board of ... «Business Wire, May 13»
5
Is Frog Skin a Red Herring?
The AMP that came closest to success—a compound called magainin, derived from the skin of the African clawed frog—passed through Phase ... «Scientist, Jan 13»
6
Former Genaera home to become new tech center
(originally founded in 1988 as Magainin Pharmaceuticals) to turn it into the Montgomery County Technology Center. “The trend is Big Pharma ... «Philadelphia Business Journal, May 12»
7
Synaptic Capital hedge fund targets healthcare sector
He started his career as a peptide chemist with Magainin Pharmaceuticals before moving to Pain Weber as an associate analyst in ... «MedCity News, Nov 11»
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Dolphins: Sponge-worthy? Yes. Antimicrobial? Maybe
He founded the company Magainin Pharmaceuticals in 1988 to develop those compounds for therapies, but it was nearly destroyed when the ... «PLoS Blogs, Jul 11»
9
Nanoparticles successfully take down MRSA bacteria
An example of the charged peptides is magainin, named from the Hebrew word for shield, magain. It was isolated from frogs after an observant ... «Ars Technica, Apr 11»
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The Dendreon Fraud: Joel Sendek of Lazard Research and …
Magainin/Genaera, the company that was run by ProQuest's ostensible founder, Jay Moorin, had lots of big ideas. For example, it claimed to ... «Market Rap, Jul 09»

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« EDUCALINGO. Magainin [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/magainin>. Apr 2024 ».
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