translocation

IPA: trænsɫoʊkˈeɪʃʌn

Removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.
(genetics) A transfer of a chromosomal segment to a new position, especially on a nonhomologous chromosome; the segment so transferred.
(biochemistry) A transfer of a molecule through a membrane.

Examples of "translocation" in Sentences

Twin arginine translocation pathway.
Mechanisms of membrane translocation.
Retro translocation into the cytosol.
The translocation has not occurred yet.
Anthrax toxin assembly and translocation.
They are a type of chromosomal translocation.
This translocation is not a mere marker of APL.
The failure of p65 translocation to the nucleus . . .
A person with such a translocation is phenotypically normal.
Present view of protein translocation across the ER membrane.
This genetic event was termed a translocation—the flip-flop transposition of two pieces of chromosomes.
The rearranged genetic region, called a translocation, leads to the production of a fusion gene and an abnormal protein and, ultimately, to leukemia.
Just over half, 51%, had one or more cancer gene mutations or an abnormality called a translocation, in which a section of DNA gets incorporated into the wrong chromosome.
These forms of leukemia share a common molecular abnormality called a translocation in which a gene on chromosome 11 breaks and becomes joined with one of many genes on different chromosomes.
Beginning in 1972, she made a number of remarkable discoveries, including the landmark finding that an abnormally short chromosome associated with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) was not a chromosome deletion, as many scientists had thought, but an exchange (known as a translocation) of segments between two chromosomes.