undermodify

To modify insufficiently.

Verb

  1. To modify insufficiently.
    • In this light, it is possibly instructive that monkey cells as described in section III, when starved for methionine, undermodify the Y-base in phenylalanine tRNA so that it resembles the situation in tumor cells. -...
    • Such unevenness of protein modification is not detected using conventional analyses but could be "malted out", or treated with commercial enzymes during mashing, or eliminated by genetic transformation of hordein matrix...
    • Other areas in Europe historically couldn't produce barley with as high of an extract and chose to undermodify the grain to retain more of its brewing value. - 2013, Ken Grossman, Beyond the Pale: The Story of Sierra...

Origin

From under- + modify.

Forms

undermodifies undermodifying undermodified