Word.ws English Dictionary

membrane proteins

membrane proteins is the plural of membrane protein.

Meaning of membrane protein

Noun

membrane protein (countable and uncountable, plural membrane proteins)

  1. A protein that is associated with a biological membrane; association typically refers to either the ability to copurify membrane lipids with said protein or the ability to visualize a physical association in situ.
    • 2000. Lodish H, Berk A, Zipursky SL, et al. Molecular Cell Biology. 4th edition. New York: W. H. Freeman; 2000. Section 3.4, Membrane Proteins. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21570/
      Associated with each membrane is a set of membrane proteins that enables the membrane to carry...

Questions about membrane proteins

What is membrane proteins the plural of?
Membrane proteins is the plural of membrane protein.

Words near membrane proteins in the dictionary

  1. membrane keyboards
  2. membrane mimetic chemistry
  3. membrane potential
  4. membrane potentials
  5. membrane protein
  6. membrane proteins
  7. membrane separation
  8. membrane separations
  9. membrane-bone
  10. membrane-bones
  11. membranectomies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: membrane proteins (page history and authors); membrane protein (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “membrane proteins.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/membrane_proteins. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.