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protofilaments

protofilaments is the plural of protofilament.

Meaning of protofilament

Noun

protofilament (plural protofilaments)

  1. A filament of polymerized tubulin in a cell, which becomes part of a microtubule
    • The MreB crystal contained a straight, single-stranded protofilament[…].2008 January 22, Mitsusada Iwasa Toshiro Oda, Akihiro Narita da, “The nature of the globular- to fibrous-actin transition”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7228, →DOI

Questions about protofilaments

What is protofilaments the plural of?
Protofilaments is the plural of protofilament.

Words near protofilaments in the dictionary

  1. protofibrillary
  2. protofibrillization
  3. protofibrillogenesis
  4. protofibrils
  5. protofilament
  6. protofilaments
  7. protoflexid
  8. protoflexids
  9. protoflexus
  10. protoflight
  11. protofluoride

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