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MESSENGER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who carries a message
Synonyms:
courier; messenger
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("messenger" is a kind of...):
traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "messenger"):
conveyer; conveyor (a person who conveys (carries or transmits))
dispatch rider (a messenger who carries military dispatches (usually on a motorcycle))
herald; trumpeter ((formal) a person who announces important news)
bearer (a messenger who bears or presents)
errand boy; messenger boy (a boy who earns money by running errands)
process-server (someone who personally delivers a process (a writ compelling attendance in court) or court papers to the defendant)
runner (a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents)
Context examples:
MiRNAs typically repress expression of their target messenger RNAs, preventing translation into proteins.
(Why Lack of Sleep Affects Some More Than Others, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
These small molecules are important messengers, but they can also damage proteins.
(Genes Can be Read in Different Ways, NIH, US)
In the affected children, the inability to remove the ubiquitin proteins from various molecules resulted in an increased production of chemical messengers that lead to inflammation (inflammatory cytokines).
(Researchers discover otulipenia, a new inflammatory disease, NIH)
Having a DNA sequence complementary to that of a messenger RNA molecule; the non-coding strand in double-stranded DNA.
(Antisense Orientation, NCI Thesaurus)
Tissues that did not express SPINK7 also produced high levels of chemical messengers called cytokines that attract eosinophils and produce the same type of inflammation seen in allergic diseases.
(Eosinophilic esophagitis may be due to missing protein, National Institutes of Health)
The TTP exerts its beneficial effect by targeting several messenger molecules that encode cytokines, proteins known to be involved in inflammation.
(Natural protein points to new inflammation treatment, NIH)
A cellular regulatory agent that acts as a second messenger.
(Cyclic GMP, NCI Thesaurus)
The cysteine-rich N-terminal DAG/PE (Diacylglycerol/Phorbol Ester)-Binding (C1) Domain of PKC isoforms interacts with phorbol ester or with the phospholipid-derived second messenger diacylglycerol.
(DAG/PE-Binding Domain, NCI Thesaurus)
Usually, this refers to cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase, an enzyme that breaks the phosphodiester bond in the second messenger molecules cAMP and cGMP.
(Phosphodiesterase Inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein is involved in both second messenger signaling and the phosphorylation of phosphoinositol.
(Phosphatidylinositol 4-Phosphate 3-Kinase C2 Domain-Containing Subunit Beta, NCI Thesaurus)
