polyadenylate

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noun

poly·​ad·​e·​nyl·​ate

ˌpäl-ē-ˌad-ᵊn-ˈil-ˌāt, -ə-ˈden-ə-ˌlāt

: poly(a)

polyadenylate

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transitive verb

polyadenylated; polyadenylating

: to add one or more segments of poly(A) to

some mechanism must exist in the cytoplasm for polyadenylating messenger RNA

—Benjamin Lewin

polyadenylation

-ə-ˌden-ə-ˈlā-shən 

noun