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N-terminus

noun

Etymology

From N- + terminus.

  1. learned borrowing from terminus — “boundary, limit”
  2. prefixed as n-terminus — “N- + terminus”

Definitions

  1. The end of a polypeptide chain that consists of an amino acid with a free amino group.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for N-terminus. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA