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PKZILLA

PKZILLA noun: prymnesin, a family of proteins.

Noun

PKZILLA (countable and uncountable, plural PKZILLAs)

  1. Prymnesin, a family of proteins.
  2. Any protein in this family.

Forms of PKZILLA

pluralPKZILLAs

Origin of PKZILLA

From Initialism of poly- + ketide + -zilla. From being a very large polyketide synthase enzyme. At the time of discovery, PKZILLA-1, the first PKZILLA discovered, discovered in Prymnesium parvum, became the largest protein known, greatly exceeding the size of the prior largest, titin.

Words formed from PKZILLA

Questions about PKZILLA

What does PKZILLA mean?
PKZILLA means prymnesin, a family of proteins.
What part of speech is PKZILLA?
PKZILLA is a noun.
What is the plural of PKZILLA?
The plural of PKZILLA is PKZILLAs.

Words near PKZILLA in the dictionary

  1. pkt.
  2. pkts
  3. PKU
  4. pkwy
  5. Pky
  6. PKZILLA
  7. PKZILLA-1
  8. PKZILLA-2
  9. PKZILLAs
  10. pl
  11. pl.

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