trafficking

tráfico ilegal

Actividad de comprar, vender o transportar mercancías de forma ilegal.

En inglés sencillo: The business of buying, selling, or moving goods illegally.

• Police are investigating drug trafficking.
• He was arrested for trafficking in stolen goods.
• The gang used fishing boats for arms trafficking.

Cómo se usa: trafficking in something (Police investigated trafficking in stolen weapons.)

Sinónimos: illegal trade, smuggling

Expresiones frecuentes: drug trafficking, arms trafficking, illegal trafficking

transporte de proteínas

Movimiento de proteínas, incluidas las enzimas, por los tejidos o entre distintas partes de las células.

En inglés sencillo: The movement of proteins, including enzymes, through tissue or between parts of cells.

• The study examined protein trafficking.
• This mutation changes enzyme trafficking through the tissue.
• Researchers tracked trafficking between different parts of the cell.

Sinónimos: protein transport

Expresiones frecuentes: protein trafficking, intracellular trafficking, enzyme trafficking