PUTATIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does putative mean? 

• PUTATIVE (adjective)
  The adjective PUTATIVE has 1 sense:

1. purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds

  Familiarity information: PUTATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUTATIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds

Context example:

the putative author of the book

Similar:

acknowledged (recognized or made known or admitted)

 Context examples 

Expressed in thymus and testis and encoded by human DLEU2 Gene, DLEU2 Protein is an 84-amino acid 10-kD putative tumor suppressor protein.

(DLEU2 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

A molecular genetic technique where genome-wide sequencing is performed on DNA regions that are super sensitive to cleavage by DNase I to identify putative DNA regulatory sequences.

(DNase-Seq, NCI Thesaurus)

EIF2B-epsilon contains a putative nucleotide-binding domain that may be involved in nucleotide exchange.

(eIF2B, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers estimate that the two putative black holes orbit each other with a separation of only a few hundred times the distance between the Earth and the Sun.

(Giant Black Hole Pair Photobombs Andromeda Galaxy, NASA)

Encoded by human DLEC1 Gene, 1755-amino acid 195.8-kD DLEC1 Protein is a putative negative regulator of cell proliferation.

(DLEC1 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

DEAD box proteins, characterized by the conserved Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp (DEAD) motif, are putative RNA helicases that alter RNA secondary structure and influence translation initiation, nuclear and mitochondrial splicing, and ribosome and spliceosome assembly.

(DEAD/H Box Protein 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Encoded by human DAXX Gene (DAXX Family), ubiquitous nuclear/cytoplasmic Death Domain-Associated Protein 6 is a 740-amino acid 81.4-kD sumoylated putative phosphohomomultimer with NLS, Glu-rich, and JNK activation domains.

(Death Domain-Associated Protein 6, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes putative pre-mRNA-splicing factor ATP-dependent RNA helicase DHX16 protein, plays a role in pre-mRNA splicing.

(DHX16 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele encodes putative macrophage-stimulating protein MSTP9, a non-functional member of the peptidase S1 family.

(MST1L wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes neuroblastoma-amplified protein, plays a putative role in the development of neuroblastoma.

(NBAS wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)