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chitoporins

chitoporins is the plural of chitoporin.

Meaning of chitoporin

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

Questions about chitoporins

What is chitoporins the plural of?
Chitoporins is the plural of chitoporin.

Words near chitoporins in the dictionary

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

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