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spastizin

spastizin noun: a protein, characteristic of spastic paraplegia, that mediates autophagic lysosome reformation.

Noun

spastizin (uncountable)

  1. A protein, characteristic of spastic paraplegia, that mediates autophagic lysosome reformation
    • Antibodies used in this study include in-house antibodies against clathrin, AP-5 ζ (monoclonal antibody used for IF), µ5 and SPG11 monoclonal (4) and spastizin [PER antibody (49)] and commercial antibodies against spastizin (Atlas HPA035693), EEA1 (BD Transduction Labs E41120), LAMP1 (Abcam ab24170...2015 June 17, Jennifer Hirst et al., “Loss of AP-5 results in accumulation of aberrant endolysosomes: defining a new type of lysosomal storage disease”, in Human Molecular Genetics, volume 24, →DOI

Questions about spastizin

What does spastizin mean?
Spastizin means a protein, characteristic of spastic paraplegia, that mediates autophagic lysosome reformation.
What part of speech is spastizin?
Spastizin is a noun.

Words near spastizin in the dictionary

  1. spasticities
  2. spasticity
  3. spastics
  4. spastin
  5. spastins
  6. spastizin
  7. spat
  8. spat blood
  9. spat facts
  10. spat feathers
  11. spat fire

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