ADAR

See also: adar, Adar, and Adár

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Etymology

Derived from the initial letters of adenosine deaminase acting on RNA.

Noun

ADAR (countable and uncountable, plural ADARs)

  1. The enzyme adenosine deaminase that affects RNA, important in editing nuclear double stranded RNAs (from A to I) in higher eukaryotes, that work by acting to convert adenosines to insosines via hydrolytic deamination.

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