Contextualizebeta

apolipoprotein

noun

Etymology

From apo- + lipoprotein.

  1. derived from πρωτεῖος
  2. derived from Protein
  3. borrowed from protéine
  4. prefixed as lipoprotein — “lipo + protein”
  5. prefixed as apolipoprotein — “apo + lipoprotein”

Definitions

  1. Any polypeptide or protein that can serve as an apoprotein by binding with a lipid to…

    Any polypeptide or protein that can serve as an apoprotein by binding with a lipid to form a lipoprotein.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for apolipoprotein. 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