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cortexillin

cortexillin noun: a coiled-coil protein found in Dictyostelium cells.

Noun

cortexillin (countable and uncountable, plural cortexillins)

  1. A coiled-coil protein found in Dictyostelium cells
    • Here, we examined the arrangement and orientation of two rod-like coiled-coil proteins, cortexillin and tropomyosin, around patterned gold nanostructures.2015, Jae-Byum Chang, Yong Ho Kim, Evan Thompson, Young Hyun No, Nam Hyeong Kim, Jose Arrieta, Vitor R. Manfrinato, Amy E. Keating, Karl K. Berggren, “Single-molecule study on the orientation of...

Forms of cortexillin

pluralcortexillins

Questions about cortexillin

What does cortexillin mean?
Cortexillin means a coiled-coil protein found in Dictyostelium cells.
What part of speech is cortexillin?
Cortexillin is a noun.
What is the plural of cortexillin?
The plural of cortexillin is cortexillins.

Words near cortexillin in the dictionary

  1. Cortese
  2. Corteses
  3. Cortesian
  4. cortex
  5. cortexes
  6. cortexillin
  7. cortexillins
  8. cortexless
  9. cortexolone
  10. cortexone
  11. Cortez

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