megasynthase

English

Etymology

mega- +‎ synthase

Noun

megasynthase (plural megasynthases)

  1. (biochemistry) A large, complex synthase (that produces a specific natural product as if on an assembly line)
    • 2015 June 27, Tian Tian, Howard M. Salis, “A predictive biophysical model of translational coupling to coordinate and control protein expression in bacterial operons”, in Nucleic Acids Research‎, volume 43, DOI:10.1093/nar/gkv635:
      A long, multi-domain olefin megasynthase was translationally coupled to a reporter protein or antibiotic resistance marker as a way to monitor and improve its translation elongation via synonymous codon mutations ( 34 ).
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