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paraflagellar

paraflagellar adjective: describing a fibrillar structure within the flagella of a protist.

Adjective

paraflagellar (not comparable)

  1. Describing a fibrillar structure within the flagella of a protist.
    • We report here that partial disruption of either PFR1 or PFR2 in T. cruzi epimastigotes with the CRISPR/Cas9 system results in accumulation of PFR components at the tip of the flagella and subsequent loss of the paraflagellar rod structure with flagellar detachment from the cell body.2015 July 21, Noelia Lander et al., “CRISPR/Cas9-Induced Disruption of Paraflagellar Rod Protein 1 and 2 Genes in Trypanosoma cruzi Reveals Their Role in Flagellar Attachment”, in mBio, volume 6, →DOI

Origin of paraflagellar

From para- + flagellar.

Questions about paraflagellar

What does paraflagellar mean?
Paraflagellar means describing a fibrillar structure within the flagella of a protist.
What part of speech is paraflagellar?
Paraflagellar is an adjective.

Words near paraflagellar in the dictionary

  1. parafilariasis
  2. parafiliariosis
  3. parafilm
  4. parafiscal
  5. parafissural
  6. paraflagellar
  7. parafle
  8. parafles
  9. paraflexus
  10. paraflight
  11. paraflights

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