dickkopf

名词 n.
英 /ˈdɪkˌkɒpf/    美 /ˈdɪkˌkɑ(p)f/|/-ˌkɔ(p)f/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of a family of glycoproteins that are involved in the development of the embryo.
    — Here we describe dickkopf-1 (dkk-1), which encodes Dkk-1, a secreted inducer of Spemann's organizer in Xenopus and a member of a new protein family.

词形变化

dickkopfs plural

词源

Borrowed from German Dickkopf (“stubborn person”, literally “thick head”), from the fact that Dickkopf-related protein 1 (DKK1), one of the dickkopf proteins, was found to be required for head formation in embryos. The word was coined by Andrei Glinka, Wei Wu, Hajo Delius, A. Paula Monaghan, Claudia Blumenstock, and Christof Niehrs in a 1998 article published in Nature: see the quotation.
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