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perfringolysins

perfringolysins is the plural of perfringolysin.

Meaning of perfringolysin

Noun

perfringolysin (plural perfringolysins)

  1. Any of a group of toxic cytolysins produced by Clostridium perfringens
    • The crystal structure of perfringolysin O (PDB: 1PFO) was used as a template for modelling.2015 August 29, “Serotype 1 and 8 Pneumococci Evade Sensing by Inflammasomes in Human Lung Tissue”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about perfringolysins

What is perfringolysins the plural of?
Perfringolysins is the plural of perfringolysin.

Words near perfringolysins in the dictionary

  1. perfrication
  2. perfrications
  3. perfriction
  4. perfrictions
  5. perfringolysin
  6. perfringolysins
  7. perfs
  8. perfumable
  9. perfumatories
  10. perfumatory
  11. perfume

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