polysialylation

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Etymology

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poly- +‎ sialylation

Noun

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polysialylation (usually uncountable, plural polysialylations)

  1. Conversion to, or reaction with, polysialic acid.
    • 2015 August 20, “The Prion Protein Controls Polysialylation of Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule 1 during Cellular Morphogenesis”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      To investigate if PrP directs polySTs to NCAM1 to facilitate its polysialylation, we made use of the N2a cell model, which was known to lack both polySTs.