Meanings
nounbiarsenical (plural biarsenicals)
plural biarsenicals
- Any of a group of fluorescent compounds, that contain two arsenic atoms, used to visualize proteins
We initially constructed a tetracysteine (PG) tagged hMC4R (hMC4R-PG) for co-transfection with a variant tetracysteine (FLN) tagged hMRAPα (hMRAPα-FLN) in order for dual detection of the tetracysteine tags by biarsenical labelling with FlAsH-EDT 2 or ReAsH-EDT 2, respectively.
2015 October 16, “hMRAPα, but Not hMRAP2, Enhances hMC4R Constitutive Activity in HEK293 Cells and This Is Not Dependent on hMRAPα Induced Changes in hMC4R Complex N-linked Glycosylation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
adjectivebiarsenical (not comparable)
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Proto-Indo-European*dwi-
- Proto-Italic*dwi-
- Latinbi-
- Englishbi-
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰelh₃-
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰl̥h₃enyom
- Proto-Indo-Iranian*ȷ́ʰr̥Hanyam
- Proto-Iranian*jr̥Hanyam
- Old Median*zaranyam
- Old Median*kā
- Old Median*zaraniyakā
- Middle Persian*zarnīk
- Classical Syriacܙܪܢܝܟܐ (zarnīḵā)
- Arabicالزَرْنِيخ (az-zarnīḵ)
- Medieval Greekἀρσενικόν (arsenikón)
- Latinarsenicum
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englisharsenical
- Englishbiarsenical
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APA
biarsenical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biarsenical
MLA
“biarsenical.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biarsenical. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “biarsenical,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biarsenical.
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