How do you use Methylate in a sentence? See 2 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Methylate meaning
- To add, or treat with methyl alcohol (see methylated spirits)
- To add a methyl group to a compound
- To add a methyl group to a nucleic acid as part of the process of gene expression
Using Methylate
- The main meaning on this page is: To add, or treat with methyl alcohol (see methylated spirits) | To add a methyl group to a compound | To add a methyl group to a nucleic acid as part of the process of gene expression
Context around Methylate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 0 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Methylate
- In this selection, "methylate" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 31 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, enzymes stand out and add context to how "methylate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include enzyme will methylate the other and these enzymes methylate only one. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "methylate" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with methylate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
If this enzyme reaches a "hemimethylated" portion of DNA (where 5-methylcytosine is in only one of the two DNA strands) the enzyme will methylate the other half. (28 words)
These enzymes methylate only one strand of the DNA, at the N-6 position of adenosyl residues, so newly replicated DNA will have only one strand methylated, which is sufficient to protect against restriction. (34 words)
These enzymes methylate only one strand of the DNA, at the N-6 position of adenosyl residues, so newly replicated DNA will have only one strand methylated, which is sufficient to protect against restriction. (34 words)
If this enzyme reaches a "hemimethylated" portion of DNA (where 5-methylcytosine is in only one of the two DNA strands) the enzyme will methylate the other half. (28 words)
Example sentences (2)
If this enzyme reaches a "hemimethylated" portion of DNA (where 5-methylcytosine is in only one of the two DNA strands) the enzyme will methylate the other half.
These enzymes methylate only one strand of the DNA, at the N-6 position of adenosyl residues, so newly replicated DNA will have only one strand methylated, which is sufficient to protect against restriction.