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junctophilins

junctophilins is the plural of junctophilin.

Meaning of junctophilin

Noun

junctophilin (plural junctophilins)

  1. Any of a class of proteins associated with junctional complexes.
    • SMCs were also found to express four junctophilin isoforms (Jph1-4), of which Jph2 was the most highly expressed in the SMCs. Ryr2 encodes a Ca 2+ induced Ca 2+ release channel, which is localized to the junctional membrane complex between the plasma membrane and endoplasmic/sarcoplasmic reticulum...2015 August 5, “Smooth Muscle Cell Genome Browser: Enabling the Identification of Novel Serum Response Factor Target Genes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about junctophilins

What is junctophilins the plural of?
Junctophilins is the plural of junctophilin.

Words near junctophilins in the dictionary

  1. junctionopathy
  2. junctions
  3. junctive
  4. junctives
  5. junctophilin
  6. junctophilins
  7. junctor
  8. junctors
  9. junctura
  10. juncturae
  11. junctural

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