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phasin

phasin noun: any of a family of surface proteins associated with bacterial granules.

Noun

phasin (plural phasins)

  1. Any of a family of surface proteins associated with bacterial granules.
    • We repeated the localization experiment overexpressing B. megaterium ’s chromosomally encoded phasin phaP, a natural main constituent of the PHB granules’ monolayer responsible for size regulation, to assess whether the aggregation of CYP11A1eGFP is an artificial effect due to the protein’s...2015 July 29, Adrian Gerber et al., “Functionalized PHB granules provide the basis for the efficient side-chain cleavage of cholesterol and analogs in recombinant Bacillus megaterium”, in Microbial...

Forms of phasin

pluralphasins

Origin of phasin

Borrowed from German Phasin.

Questions about phasin

What does phasin mean?
Phasin means any of a family of surface proteins associated with bacterial granules.
What part of speech is phasin?
Phasin is a noun.
What is the plural of phasin?
The plural of phasin is phasins.

Words near phasin in the dictionary

  1. phasianoid
  2. phasic
  3. phasically
  4. phasicities
  5. phasicity
  6. phasin
  7. phasing
  8. phasing current
  9. phasing currents
  10. phasing down
  11. phasing in

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