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Meaning of "plastocyanin" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PLASTOCYANIN

plastocyanin  [ˌplæstəʊˈsaɪənɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLASTOCYANIN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Plastocyanin 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 PLASTOCYANIN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Plastocyanin

Plastocyanin is a copper-containing protein involved in electron-transfer. The protein is monomeric, with a molecular weight around 10,500 Daltons, and 99 amino acids in most vascular plants. It is a member of the plastocyanin family of copper-binding proteins.

Definition of plastocyanin in the English dictionary

The definition of plastocyanin in the dictionary is a blue protein found in green plants and in some bacteria.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PLASTOCYANIN


adenine
ˈædənɪn
alanin
ˈælənɪn
anthocyanin
ˌænθəʊˈsaɪənɪn
betacyanin
ˌbiːtəˈsaɪənɪn
cyanin
ˈsaɪənɪn
eumelanin
juːˈmelənɪn
glutenin
ˈɡluːtənɪn
haemocyanin
ˌhiːməʊˈsaɪənɪn
hemocyanin
ˌhiːməʊˈsaɪənɪn
Manganin
ˈmæŋɡənɪn
melanin
ˈmɛlənɪn
opsonin
ˈɒpsənɪn
phthalocyanin
ˌθæləʊˈsaɪənɪn
phycocyanin
ˌfaɪkəˈsaɪənɪn
safranin
ˈsæfrənɪn
safranine
ˈsæfrənɪn
saponin
ˈsæpənɪn
syntonin
ˈsɪntənɪn
thionin
ˈθaɪənɪn
troponin
ˈtræʊpənɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLASTOCYANIN

plasticization
plasticize
plasticizer
plasticky
plasticly
plastics industry
plastid
plastidial
plastidule
plastilina
plastination
plastique
plastisol
plastogamy
plastometer
plastometric
plastometry
plastoquinone
plastral
plastron

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLASTOCYANIN

agglutinin
artemisinin
Benin
bradykinin
Bulganin
cholecystokinin
conin
Cronin
Esenin
hemagglutinin
Lenin
lignin
melatonin
phaeomelanin
piccanin
renin
ronin
serotonin
tannin
uranin

Synonyms and antonyms of plastocyanin in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «plastocyanin» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PLASTOCYANIN

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The translations of plastocyanin from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «plastocyanin» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

质体蓝素
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

plastocianina
570 millions of speakers

English

plastocyanin
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

plastocyanin
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

plastocyanin
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пластоцианин
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

plastocianina
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

plastocyanin
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

plastocyanine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Plastocyanin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Plastocyanin
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

プラストシアニン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

plastocyanin
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Plastocyanin
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

plastocyanin
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

plastocyanin
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्लास्टोकायनिन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

plastosiyanin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

plastocianina
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

plastocyanin
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пластоціанін
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

plastocyanin
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πλαστοκυανίνη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

plastocyanin
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

plastocyanin
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

plastocyanin
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of plastocyanin

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PLASTOCYANIN»

The term «plastocyanin» is normally little used and occupies the 136.141 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PLASTOCYANIN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «plastocyanin» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «plastocyanin» 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 plastocyanin

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLASTOCYANIN»

Discover the use of plastocyanin in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to plastocyanin and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Photosystem I: The Light-Driven Plastocyanin: Ferredoxin ...
- Biosynthetic Processes: Chapter 30: Genetic Dissection of Photosystem I Assembly and Turnover.- Chapter 31: The Assembly of the Bound Iron-Sulfur Clusters in Photosystem I.- Chapter 32: The Assembly of Photosystem I Reducing Site.
John H. Golbeck, 2007
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Structural and Functional Implications of Complex Formation ...
In this work, high-resolution structures of oxidized WT plastocyanin, oxidized D44A/D45A double mutant (PCdm-ox) plastocyanin and reduced double mutant ( PCdm- red) plastocyanin from the cyanobacterium Phormidium laminosum were  ...
Yanina S. Bukhman, 2008
3
Photosynthesis and the Environment
The problems of interference from plastocyanin are more substantial, as about 35 % of the may be due to plastocyanin (Harbinson and Hedley, 1989; Klughammer and Schreiber, 1991). Because of the equilibrium constant between P700 and ...
N.R. Baker, 1996
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Supramolecular Photosensitive and Electroactive Materials
In cyanobacteria and some eukaryotic algae, the heme protein cytochrome 06 can replace plastocyanin under conditions of copper deficiency [119]. Although the electron-transfer reactions of plastocyanin with various partners have been ...
Hari Singh Nalwa, 2001
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Discoveries in Photosynthesis
(Gorman and Levine 1966). Cytochrome f bound to the mutant thylakoids was reduced by PS II light but its oxidation by PS I light required plastocyanin. Another Chlamydomonas mutant strain, ac206, which has plastocyaninbut lacks cytc553,  ...
Govindjee, 2006
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Cell Biology of Metals and Nutrients
Plastocyanin import into chloroplasts and thylakoids is conducted using the Tic/ Toc and SecA/SecY-mediated pathways (for review see Schnell 1998), which translocate proteins in an unfolded state. Upon import, plastocyanin acquires its Cu ...
Rüdiger Hell, Ralf-Rainer Mendel, 2010
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On the Role of Plastocyanin in Photosynthesis and a New ...
By digitonin treatment of chloroplasts, followed by differential ultracentrifugation, stable particles are obtained which reduce NADP in illumination only if plastocyanin is added.
A. Trebst, GOETTINGEN UNIV (Germany) INST FOR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY., 1966
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Inorganic Biochemistry
A value for the concentration of plastocyanin is given of 4 nmol of plastocyanin per mole of cytochrome /. An unexpected finding was that these three electron carriers were released from the thylakoid membrane of chloroplasts subjected to  ...
H. A. O. Hill, 1981
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Photosynthesis
These mobile electron carriers are relatively low-molecular-weight proteins and are both linked to the PS-I reaction-center complex by electrostatic forces. Plastocyanin is located on the lumen side and is the electron donor to while ferredoxin ...
Bacon Ke, 2001
10
Advances in Low-Temperature Biology
In vivo, inactivation of photosynthesis closely follows the loss of the electron transport protein plastocyanin from thylakoids (Schmidt et al., 1986; Hincha et al., 1987). Plastocyanin is a soluble, electron-carrier protein that is located in the ...
P.L. Steponkus, 1996

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLASTOCYANIN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term plastocyanin is used in the context of the following news items.
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Using ITC Technique for Characterization of Protein-Protein …
... Modification of the protein-linkage model and experimental verification of the modified model in the case of cytochrome c and plastocyanin. «News-Medical.net, Jun 15»
2
Weighted protein residue networks based on joint recurrences …
Arcangeli C, Bizzarri AR, Cannistraro S. Role of interfacial water in the molecular dynamics-simulated dynamical transition of plastocyanin. «BMC Blogs Network, May 15»
3
NIH funds center at ASU to battle infectious diseases
... neutralizes the HIV virus. Next are crystals of the cyanobacterial protein plastocyanin followed by a schematic of a virus. Download image ... «Arizona State University, Sep 10»

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