misinteract

present singular third person misinteracts · participle present misinteracting · participle past misinteracted · past misinteracted

1. To interact incorrectly; to take part in an inappropriate interaction.

   First, a potential cost to imbalance is that 'leftover' proteins without remaining functional partners are free to misinteract.

   2018 March 8, David O Holland, Margaret E Johnson, “Stoichiometric balance of protein copy numbers is measurable and functionally significant in a protein-protein interaction network for yeast endocytosis”, in PLoS computational biology

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   Even the rampant spread of psychological thinking has largely failed to awaken us to the ways we interact and misinteract in life.

   2004, David Allyn, I Can't Believe I Just Did That, page 228

   If the N‐terminal domain of multidomain proteins could fold into its proper form before the polypeptide constituting the next domain comes out of the ribosome, it would reduce the chance of the coming polypeptide to misinteract with a part of the first domain.

   2011, Andrzej Joachimiak, Structural Genomics, Part A, page 65