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noun
Any of a family of intracellular non-receptor tyrosine kinases that transduce cytokine-mediated signals via the JAK-STAT pathway.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Synonyms: JAK
Antonyms: none provided
History
Shortened from just another kinase (being part of a large number of discoveries at the time); see Janus.
