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chitoporin

chitoporin noun: a porin associated with bacterial cell walls.

Noun

chitoporin (plural chitoporins)

  1. A porin associated with bacterial cell walls
    • Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase, a copper-dependent enzyme, attacks recalcitrant chitin polysaccharides [4 ,5 ], while endochitinases hydrolyse long chitin chains to chitin oligosaccharides, which are then transported through the bacterial cell wall by chitoporin or ChiP.2016 February 13, “Probing the Catalytic Mechanism of Vibrio harveyi GH20 ?-N -Acetylglucosaminidase by Chemical Rescue”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of chitoporin

pluralchitoporins

Origin of chitoporin

From chito- + porin.

Questions about chitoporin

What does chitoporin mean?
Chitoporin means a porin associated with bacterial cell walls.
What part of speech is chitoporin?
Chitoporin is a noun.
What is the plural of chitoporin?
The plural of chitoporin is chitoporins.

Words near chitoporin in the dictionary

  1. chitooligosaccharidolytic
  2. chitopentamer
  3. chitopentamers
  4. chitopentaose
  5. chitopentaoses
  6. chitoporin
  7. chitoporins
  8. Chitor
  9. Chitorgarh
  10. chitosaccharide
  11. chitosaccharides

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