situated or occurring in part of a cell outside the nucleus
extranuclear in American English
(ˌɛkstrəˈnukliər; ˌɛkstrəˈnjukliər)
adjective
located or occurring outside of the nucleus of a cell
extranuclear in American English
(ˌekstrəˈnuːkliər, -ˈnjuː-, or, by metathesis -kjələr)
adjective
Biology
pertaining to or affecting the parts of a cell outside the nucleus
Word origin
[1885–90; extra- + nuclear]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: booster, foregut, lineup, roller coaster, scrumextra- is a prefix meaning “outside,” “beyond,” freely used as an English formative. Otherwords that use the affix extra- include: extra-atmospheric, extrajudicial, extraterritorial
Examples of 'extranuclear' in a sentence
extranuclear
Even less investigated are the roles of extranuclear signaling proteins in these processes.
Pavan B Narayanaswamy, Mahshid Hodjat, Hermann Haller, Inna Dumler, Yulia Kiyan 2014, 'Loss of urokinase receptor sensitizes cells to DNA damage and delays DNA repair.',PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4079571?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Preliminary karyotype analysis suggests that recombination may not be confined to the extranuclear genome.
JR Stothard, IA Frame, MA Miles 1999, 'Genetic diversity and genetic exchange in Trypanosoma cruzi: dual drug-resistant "progeny"from episomal transformants', Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02761999000700027. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Apart from the caspase-dependent apoptosis observed, emergence of cleaved p53 supports a direct, extranuclear apoptotic function of p53.
Amini A, Ehteda A, Masoumi Moghaddam S, Akhter J, Pillai K, Morris DL 2013, 'Cytotoxic effects of bromelain in human gastrointestinal carcinoma cell lines (MKN45,KATO-III, HT29-5F12, and HT29-5M21)', OncoTargets and Therapyhttp://www.dovepress.com/cytotoxic-effects-of-bromelain-in-human-gastrointestinal-carcinoma-cel-a12784. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)