Definition of "kinases" []

• Plural form of kinase. (noun)

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• "I also don't get your highlighting of kinases, given that the amazing thing about the second-messenger pathways that often include kinases is that complex multicellular organisms have so few of them."
• "It took three or four years to realise that this inhibition was due to the action of at least two inhibitors of the process, one activated by the absence of haem, the other by the presence of dsRNA, and that these inhibitors were protein kinases, which phosphorylated eIF-2, the key initiation factor that catalysed the binding of"
• "Today, cyclins and cyclin-dependent protein kinases are recognised as key elements in the regulation of cell cycle transitions, and the family of proteins has grown considerably, thanks to work in many laboratories."