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channelrhodopsins

channelrhodopsins is the plural of channelrhodopsin.

Meaning of channelrhodopsin

Noun

channelrhodopsin (countable and uncountable, plural channelrhodopsins)

  1. An opsin protein that controls phototaxis in unicellular green algae.
    • The channelrhodopsin switch is “really going to blow the lid off the whole analysis of brain function,” said George Augustine, a neurobiologist at Duke University in Durham, N.C.2007 August 14, Ingfei Chen, “The Beam of Light That Flips a Switch That Turns on the Brain”, in New York Times

Questions about channelrhodopsins

What is channelrhodopsins the plural of?
Channelrhodopsins is the plural of channelrhodopsin.

Words near channelrhodopsins in the dictionary

  1. channelopathies
  2. channelopathy
  3. channelopsin
  4. channelopsins
  5. channelrhodopsin
  6. channelrhodopsins
  7. channels
  8. channels of distribution
  9. Channelsea
  10. channelward
  11. channelwards

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