Meaning of undermodify | Babel Free

Definitions

To modify insufficiently.

Examples

“In this light, it is possibly instructive that monkey cells as described in section III, when starved for methionine, undermodify the Y-base in phenylalanine tRNA so that it resembles the situation in tumor cells.”

“Such unevenness of protein modification is not detected using conventional analyses but could be "malted out", or treated with commercial enzymes during mashing, or eliminated by genetic transformation of hordein matrix proteins which do not compact during grain development and which do not undermodify or overmodify during the breakdown of cell wall beta glucan and small starch granules during malting.”

“Other areas in Europe historically couldn't produce barley with as high of an extract and chose to undermodify the grain to retain more of its brewing value.”

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