missense

mis- +‎ sense

missense (countable and uncountable, plural missenses)

1. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence that is meaningful but has an incorrect meaning, with the result that its products do not do what they are supposed to do.

• missense mutation

• nonsense (biology)

missense (third-person singular simple present missenses, present participle missensing, simple past and past participle missensed)

1. To sense incorrectly.
   • 2012, Stefan Bröer, Carsten A. Wagner, Membrane Transporter Diseases, page 194:

     One possibility is that if G6PT is a G6P sensor, it may be missensing the intracellular concentrations and misdirecting further accumulation.

• Essenism