English

exosite

From exo- + site.

Formed from exo- + site

Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs ‘out of’

Proto-Hellenic *eks

Ancient Greek ἐκ ‘Out of, from’

Ancient Greek ἔξω ‘outer’

English exo-

Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- ‘to build’

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Latin sinō ‘to put, lay, set down’

Latin situs ‘position, place, site’

Anglo-Norman site

Middle English site ‘site, location’

English site

Today it means

noun A secondary binding site, remote from the active site, on a protein

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