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spectraplakin

spectraplakin noun: any of a group of exceptionally long, intracellular proteins that have the rare ability to bind to all three cytoskeletal elements: actin, microtubules, and intermediate filaments.

Noun

spectraplakin (plural spectraplakins)

  1. Any of a group of exceptionally long, intracellular proteins that have the rare ability to bind to all three cytoskeletal elements: actin, microtubules, and intermediate filaments
    • Thus it is possible that in Schwann cells, Dst is involved in any or all of intermediate filament organization, basement membrane formation and mediation of signaling of specific integrin complexes—none of which are present in OLs. Further explanation may exist for the seemingly disposable nature...2016 February 18, “Cytoskeletal Linker Protein Dystonin Is Not Critical to Terminal Oligodendrocyte Differentiation or CNS Myelination”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of spectraplakin

pluralspectraplakins

Questions about spectraplakin

What does spectraplakin mean?
Spectraplakin means any of a group of exceptionally long, intracellular proteins that have the rare ability to bind to all three cytoskeletal elements: actin, microtubules, and intermediate filaments.
What part of speech is spectraplakin?
Spectraplakin is a noun.
What is the plural of spectraplakin?
The plural of spectraplakin is spectraplakins.

Words near spectraplakin in the dictionary

  1. spectrality
  2. spectrally
  3. spectralness
  4. spectranomic
  5. spectranomics
  6. spectraplakin
  7. spectraplakins
  8. spectrascope
  9. spectrasexual
  10. spectrasexuality
  11. spectrasexuals

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