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talin

talin noun: any of a group of cytoskeletal proteins.

Noun

talin (plural talins)

  1. Any of a group of cytoskeletal proteins
    • Talin showed two isoforms in rohu, where as talin-1 and talin-2 in model vertebrates produces two talins through alternative mRNA splicing [75 ].2015 July 6, “Construction, De-Novo Assembly and Analysis of Transcriptome for Identification of Reproduction-Related Genes and Pathways from Rohu, Labeo rohita (Hamilton)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of talin

pluraltalins

Origin of talin

From Latin tālus (“ankle”) + -in.

Questions about talin

What does talin mean?
Talin means any of a group of cytoskeletal proteins.
What part of speech is talin?
Talin is a noun.
What is the plural of talin?
The plural of talin is talins.

Words near talin in the dictionary

  1. taliks
  2. Talim
  3. Talima
  4. talimogene laherparepvec
  5. Talimundoc
  6. talin
  7. Talin-talin
  8. taling
  9. Talinga
  10. Talingaan
  11. Talinhugon

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