missense

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English

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Etymology

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From mis- +‎ sense.

Noun

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missense (countable and uncountable, plural missenses)

  1. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence that is meaningful but has an incorrect meaning, with the result that its products do not do what they are supposed to do.

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Verb

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missense (third-person singular simple present missenses, present participle missensing, simple past and past participle missensed)

  1. To sense incorrectly.
    • 2012, Stefan Bröer, Carsten A. Wagner, Membrane Transporter Diseases, page 194:
      One possibility is that if G6PT is a G6P sensor, it may be missensing the intracellular concentrations and misdirecting further accumulation.

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