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anticalins

anticalins is the plural of anticalin.

Meaning of anticalin

Noun

anticalin (plural anticalins)

  1. Any of a class of artificial proteins that are able to bind to antigens. They are derived from human lipocalins.
    • The calyx architecture offers several opportunities for therapeutic applications: the most radical involves the engineering of the natural proteins to produce anticalins, antibody mimetics devised to bind specific ligands, including drugs for targeted delivery.2015 July 14, “All-Purpose Containers? Lipid-Binding Protein – Drug Interactions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about anticalins

What is anticalins the plural of?
Anticalins is the plural of anticalin.

Words near anticalins in the dictionary

  1. anticalcifying
  2. anticalcineurin
  3. anticalciuric
  4. anticalculous
  5. anticalin
  6. anticalins
  7. anticaliph
  8. anticaliphate
  9. anticaliphates
  10. anticaliphs
  11. anticalligraphic

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