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proteome en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpɹəʊtɪəʊm/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Blend of protein + genome or proteo- + -ome.

Meanings

  1. The complete set of proteins encoded by a particular genome.
    • So now the quest is to crack the human proteome – a concept so novel that the term proteome didn't even exist a decade ago. 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 367:
    • Two-dimensional (2-D) gel electrophoresis allows the separation of thousands of proteins, and provides the means for separating the proteome (the PROTEin complement expressed by a genOME) of a simple species, or the protein component of a complex tissue. 1996 January 14, Marc R. Wilkins, “From Proteins to Proteomes: Large Scale Protein Identification by Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis and Amino Acid Analysis”, in Nature Biotechnology, volume 14, page 61:

Forms

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Deriveds

metalloproteinase · selenoproteome · immunoproteome · phosphoproteome · miniproteinase · epiproteome · endoproteinase · panproteinase · leukoproteinase · subproteome · multiproteinase · exoproteome · acetylproteome · lipoproteinase · melanoproteinase · antiproteinase

Hyponyms

phosphoproteome · secretome

Relateds

proteomic · proteomics

Translations (7)

el πρωτέωμα (complete set of proteins) · es proteoma (complete set of proteins) · el πρωτεΐνωμα (complete set of proteins) · kmr proteom (complete set of proteins) · cmn 蛋白組 /蛋白组 (complete set of proteins) · de Proteom (complete set of proteins) · fi proteomi (complete set of proteins)